Wish 60 minutes did an update report. On how things have changed since then and new HFT news. What happened since Manoj helped the SEC "learn about how HFT works" in exchange for selling the SEC some of Traderwerks' HFT scanning software. The oversaturation of HFT. The co-location of HFT server farms near D.C. offices now to grab the first gov't news a millisecond faster. More investigation and talk of future regulation. etc.
Yes, I meant execution. Plus, retail day traders have better odds on centralized exchanges vs massively fragmented stock trading venues. The overall retail odds are obviously low.
yes. and this is why i've been saying for a very long time that it would be much better,if traders compete on few exchanges(as it was before) not on some random venues, where ' they' are able to use(again) variety of technical and regulatory advantages in their favor. this is where the SEC regulations are actually needed,but SEC decided to look the other way and pretending that everything is fine. with few exchanges and simple ,same rules for everyone traders will be FORCED to compete thru the PRICE,not thru all those hft \subpenny games. but i guess -it was too hard to understand this for many here,in SEC and DC.
You guys read the recent book Dark Pool's? If you did/do you will come to realize that there is an entire culture on the street whose sole purpose is to steal as much as they can by having some kind of STRUCTURAL edge. The latest manifestation (infestation?), is the rise of hft scum, as I like to call them. Bob111 is correct, they game every tick. I went to take an offered 200 shares today (might have been 2 diff exchanges) and somehow only 100 filled, and the stock blasted up a dime. No way I wasn't frontrun. And they do it all day 100 shares at a time. This routing bullshit really should be stopped. Too many exchanges, the only purpose served at this time is to obfuscate the criminal activity.
enjoy another example of "fair and orderly" market that those bots provided for ya ticker GENT note that on middle of the day spread on this fairly liquid and well priced stock was >7%. where are those SEC rules,5% halts etc? ps-i tried to sell at 22 and above,but no luck for me(as usual) and then price collapses from +16 % to 4%. instantly. are you seriously want to trade in this environment? it's a wild f** west out there. wilder than ever
I agree that many of those .0001 and below are often "in-housed" by the Broker's Market Maker. I see this happen with UBSS and Etrade using Citadel with their Option Market Making firm was akin to what you would refer to IBKR's "Timber Hill" routing. Citadel is what drove me to move all my money after the 2008 meltdown when Citadel bought all Etrade's debt for pennies on the dollar and received all order-flow. Etrade had a Market Maker we traders use to laugh at, "GVRC" who took forever to fill a small order. The orginal traders got ARCA and INET free, the rest of the trades had to pay ".005 per share" to use ARCA and INET. If you wanted to catch a moving stock with a decent execution, 90% of the time you used ARCA. GVRC was horrible, taking five minutes to fill orders over 10,000 shares. We all learned to trade in increments of 9999 shares because the Market Makers did not have to show orders on the Level 2 of 10,000 shares. You have a stock like GERN moving from $1.3 to $1.9 and Goober Market Maker can't even get you shares at $1.3 to $1.68 and finally on the fall to $1.53 your order of 15000 shares is printed at $1.68 while the stock hits $1.53 on the down side. The stock moves up again and I use only ARCA, ARCA, ARCA as other Etraders are getting slaughtered by GVCR. Trying to get a cancel from Goober Pyle Market Maker was horrible until Etrade was taken over by Citadel. The adage to love the devil you know instead of wishing for a new demon comes true. Options no longer got any price enhancement $2.2 to $3.2 if someone is stupid to put a Market Order was filled at at $3.20 while my Fidelity Active Trader account filled orders at $2.75, strange how that works? With the volume of trades I still do, and the amount of tape I go through, much of those trades you are seeing are "In Housed" to avoid ECN fees and "Matched" between Brokers like Ameritrade who claim they are able to in-house a huge number of shares without heading out to Nasdaq. The Dark-Pools FinraAlternateDisplay prints. High Frequence traders in my opinion are using BATS and EDGX exchanges. Just my opinion after watching the Time and Sales, Level 2 and NYSE-ARCA book for years. You have to find a way to calucate how those programs are moving those stocks if you are a LL2 trader. Document how often they change their bid x ask, the spreads are bigger now in my opinion. Those Algos adjust quickly when nobody is willing to put a order out there. For three months I have traded UNXL and like clock work if you wait just enough time, you can get your buy order filled while the program hits the sell order .13 cents apart. Friday, I had a order to buy at $19.13 and a order to sell at $19.29 and those machines hit my bid and took out my sell order in minutes. I churned the stock towards the close at $19.25x19.34, 19.29x19.38 and $19.33x 19.43. I know it's not all computers keeping the spread $.07 to $.19 apart consistently. Maybe it's all in my head and those HFTS are not making the spreads on stocks like TSLA, Zillow and other stocks bigger than they should be!
You never did confirm if you actually were IN this trade. We only know that you were a cheerleader for some dude who was it in.