Please tell me WHAT PARAGRAPH this quote comes from in the article. Thus far, I am unable to locate it.
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Thanks. I'm wondering if that quote refers to those brokers that are designated as Sole Liquidity Providers (SLP's).
This isn't about paying for a service. This is about the fairness and integrity of the markets. Ever play Blackjack? Having live data is just like a standard game of blackjack. You pay to play and you see each card at the same time as everyone else. But lets say you can play this new game. Now, whenever the dealer deals you get to see the card before everyone else. What's more, go ahead and have a bet before the card hits the table. Casinos try try to fight card counters because it costs them money. Exchanges make money from inviting and providing the tools for "card counters" at the cost of the majority of market participants. From the NY Times article:
Ive been working on an automated trading system for sometime now. The hard problem is to mitigate profit losses from the constant reversals from HFT while still trading within the day (all active trades closed overnight). Guess I'm not the only one experiencing this.
Except you can opt-out. like this: http://www.batstrading.com/resources/features/bats_exchange_dart.pdf I find it interesting that the people who are the most outraged seem to be the least experienced traders. Just don't route to places that are letting outsiders see your order flow.
You're missing the point. It's not anything like Blackjack, because you cannot play the game at all without live data. People can and do make great sacks of money using non-live market data. There is a giant pool of traders out there who trade off of delayed or end-of-day quotes. That market information is free. A smaller pool of traders pays monthly fees for "real time" quotes. That information is NOT free, and the traders are paying to gain an advantage over the larger pool of traders. So now there is an even smaller pool of traders who pay even more for even faster, shorter-lived information to gain a perceived advantage over both classes for a very specific style of trading. So what? "They" are doing to you what you are doing to J6P. If it's not ok for them to do it to you, it's certainly not ok for you to do it to the even-slower pool of traders behind you. I fail to see any rational grounds for being upset about this.
Anybody that would try to compete with bots that have access to prices ahead of time is well... competing against bots that have the book ahead of time... learn to read a chart, play the bigger moves where speed and commish becomes manageable or negligible in it's effects... and stop whining for godz sake. If you are sitting there pounding a keyboard all day and making less and less.. you're a buggy whip maker that needs a sixty unit education in automotive technology... adapt early and as often as necessary...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running They are going to need to amend that article. There was a similar problem in the FOREX market for years where there big players that could see cash order flow, and would use it to trade futures at the CME. That loop was recently closed, I think. Exchanges have become a complete joke. Want another scam? How about payment for order flow(PFOF) for equity options taking liquidity that the customer never sees? (your broker swallows it whole - extremely profitable!) http://www.sec.gov/answers/payordf.htm http://www.theoptionsinsider.com/industry/?id=108 an article from 2000!!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/19/b...-payment-for-order-flow-in-stock-options.html In equities, you _pay_ to take liquidity and get rebated to provide liquidity, as it should be, imo.