Please also keep in mind that the originator of this thread, who designed the poll, namely Hamlet, was previously caught posting under multiple aliases into another thread regarding NYSE specialists (see "Observations on the NYSE Specialist.") This dishonest behaviour throws even more doubt upon the validity of the poll, above and beyond that which was already mentioned or which was always applies to such polls.
Very good Mr. Nader. I do have one other alias that was intitiated long ago on a laptop, from which I post perhaps 3-5 times a year. However, I have not voted even once in this poll at all. What is your point? If this is a burning issue for you and it is causing you to lose sleep, feel free to address and confirm what I said with a moderator. You do whine more than any other participant on this forum.
I've seen others claim this, but it's your broker that doesn't allow it. I trade through NY quotes all day long on ECN's...there are no restrictions unless your software has it built in. Is that what you are referring to?
Yes I've read your article. I could not miss it since you have posted it all over ET numerous times! The article tells the tale of an extensive TWO YEAR investigation into the NYSE from top to bottom. It appears to have been a very thorough and meticulous one. I am sure that no stone was left unturned. What was the result after this two year investigation? Fifteen traders were criminally charged and five others were civilly charged. The NYSE was also found to be at fault for inadequately policing and punishing them, and thus settled a related civil charge. This is the entire NYSE being corrupt as an entire institution? This is, in your words, a fundamental, systemwide, institutional corruption? I think not. Yep, they found a few wrong doers, who were rightly punished. Show me a single institution on the globe where a few bad apples would not be exposed upon close pro-longed inspection. Launch an extensive two-year investigation into any institution that you choose and let me know what you come up with.
Do politics and trading go hand in hand? If so than the our democracy is doomed, and may be the Islamic fascists have a point.
That would be true if there was a voting cat for "earn -0$ and go." Its hard to imagine that anyone earning +300K$ "go or stay" is losing (unless they are just plain greedy). Forget whatever the spec might be.
Here are some excerpts from the article, which show that NYSE itself is a fundamentally corrupt institution, instead of just an ordinary organization with the inevitable few bad apples. Notice that the U.S. government says that the investigation is ongoing, further actions are anticipated against exchange regulators who provided cover for the crime, and this matter is far from concluded. Hamlet tries to minimize the matter, by writing as though only a few isolated people were caught and punished, and that the affair is over; but the truth is that this scandal is only the latest in a long series of NYSE corruption scandals, and it is not over yet, and it implicates not just a few bad apples, but the entire institutional structure, in a conspiracy to steal from the public. Hamlet's summary of this article was grossly inaccurate. Perhaps the dispute over what this article actually said will distract readers from the fact that Hamlet was previously caught posting under multiple aliases in another thread about NYSE specialists.
This is completely innacurate. I doubt a single person here profits because of any corruptness, real or imagined. What do you mean by this? There appears to be no logic in it.
My summary is an accurate intrepretation of your article, which can be seen by anyone who can read. The article is an update on old news. The NYSE has settled. They admitted no wrong doing. They made the appropraite remedies. Case closed. You post no meat, only innuendos again! Stand down. You bring up again what I have already explained as a single post there on an old laptop. Do not distract from the subject of this thread with this off-topic nonsense. Please keep this thread On topic.
Well, OK, Hamlet, since you ask, I will oblige you and answer your question. my point is that your extensive and deceptive use of multiple aliases, which you kept secret until I caught you doing it, casts doubt upon your honesty. Your questionable honesty taints the poll. We have no way to know how many aliases you have on EliteTrader, and no way to know how many times you voted in the poll you constructed. Capiche? Let me give you an example of apparent dishonesty. You stated that you post from your other alias "perhaps 3-5 times a year." I have, using the EliteTrader search function, counted that you posted from your alias called "size" a total of 23 times over the past year, plus another 49 times in the year prior to that year, plus another 25 times in the year prior to that year. It seems your numbers were only off by one or two or 50 posts per year (ha-ha). We have no way to know how extensively you used any other aliases while concealing them the same way you hid your use of the "size" alias. Let's also not forget that in the other NYSE thread, where I caught you using multiple aliases, you were using them to post personal attacks and to disrupt what would otherwise have been a great thread. Such behaviour is a violation of EliteTrader Terms of Service, either with or without multiple aliases; and using multiple aliases is also a violation. So we have definitely seen the downside to your using multiple aliases. I would like to see the upside. I would like to know why you are using multiple aliases. I think that the use of multiple aliases helps expose EliteTrader readers to misleading information and that it undermines the integrity of EliteTrader. What does your use of multiple aliases add to EliteTrader? I think you still owe us an explanation as to why you are using multiple aliases.