http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-22/wash-trading-by-high-frequency-firms-said-to-face-u-s-scrutiny.html "âMarket abuse is not...
"..... Debt can be expanded at a rate that exceeds the rise in real income in only one way: by lowering interest rates so the same income can...
Inverted tax system. Hmmm. Taxation tends to change behavior to lessen the impact. How about a tax on being poor or on entitlements received?...
Yes that is a good fix. Both seemed to work for a while. It's not clear what changed exactly, but you have a good point.
Fair enough. The people who moved here came for a better life. Religious freedom, lower cost of living, and a supposedly classless society were...
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you. I got stuck in Salmon Arm behind the Sicamous floods. Mom will be moving into a seniors home. That...
Perhaps he read it in the first thread I initiated where I wrote that it was ALWAYS a myth used as a carrot for the middle class. Both Capitalism...
Funny. Thanks.
Hopefully, my past posts on HFT have made these points clear: I don't care about HFT in my own trading methodology. I don't use liquidity as an...
"unreal" liquidity to me would be orders that show up on slower software as a steady bid/ask size, yet are being continually updated and changed...
I had an interesting conversation with a former Vancouver BC prop trader who said after years of doing quite well, the methods he was using began...
LOL. True enough.
Excellent comments. I wonder if the process we are going through is inevitable as the economic power shifts from the US elsewhere. In the last...
I agree with your comment on asking for something far worse. Iceland and Latvia are exceptions. No bank would tell a homeowner in hock to them...
I have said before HFT is causing changes and I like all other such changes, will be eaten by something worse yet eventually (at which point...
So everyone. Once we begin to understand the issue, I am more interested in the solutions. I do believe they exist. So, What is the precise...
Ed I need to read more of your comments than I have time for right now. I am away for a while helping my mom out. I may be intermittent (much like...
Let me turn your question around a bit. Real estate has been balanced by other sectors. I think that is largely true. However, if I had told you...
All trading is about trading reality in the face of fantasy (fair value). Monetary deflation is reality and the power of the FED and the...
So ...... continuing on with the analogy. What effects do interest rates have on the balloon? Where does the money for interest paid come from...
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