Check out this article on the front page of Yahoo finance - http://biz.yahoo.com/tm/030822/10585_1.html nowadays every piker seems to think they know everything... at first i thought to myself (before actually reading the article), "this article is just further proof that tapereading is dead, no matter what your favorite franchised prop shop would like you to believe..." but then, after reading the article in its entirety, i thought to myself, "man, what an idiot. no wonder he used to work at the amex." tapereading is still safe. if this guy knew anything about trading, he'd still be doing it instead of writing for yahoo...