Money Murder Mystery: Who Killed the Stock Market?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 25, 2015 – 10:12 AM GMTBy: Money_MorningShah Gilani writes: Liquidity, the “life blood” that allows the world’s capital markets to function, has been murdered.Liquidity was choked violently in the bond market by the gloved hands of its erstwhile babysitter – the broker-dealers- but it bled to death in […]
Who’s Killing the Stock Market?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 21, 2015 – 06:41 AM GMTBy: Money_MorningShah Gilani writes: Liquidity, the grease that allows the world’s capital markets to function, has been murdered.It bled to death in the stock market from a thousand nicks and cuts and was suffocated violently in the bond market by the gloved hands of its erstwhile […]
Think you too could “Sarao” the markets? Step right up and test your ‘spoofing’ skills…As an “old school point’n’click prop trader” he managed to set and cancel thousands of trades in milliseconds.Click image below for reaction speed test…If you can’t beat 20ms, then every HFT shop just front-ran you and executed your ‘test’ trade…It appears ‘humans’ are not capable of […]
The last time we looked at the most important tower in the world, about 4 months ago, it looked as follows:The tower in question is the primary microwave relay into the ill-named “New York” Stock Exchange which actually is located just off MacArthur Boulevard and Route 17 in Mahwah, New Jersey, and in our opinion is the “most important tower” […]
The head of the SEC, Mary Jo White, has announced a broad set of new initiatives and proposed regulations that are aimed at giving the agency a tighter grip on the high-frequency trading (HFT) firms which have come to dominate daily activity on the stock market. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, if the new rules are passed, HFT […]
High-frequency trading (HFT) firms make money – and lots of it – by exploiting inefficiencies in the pricing of shares quoted on several exchanges in an increasingly fragmented marketplace. They also generate significant income by capturing rebates offered by various exchanges for providing liquidity. While detractors dub such practices as abusive and predatory – claiming, for instance, that HFT firms […]
The upsurge of investor interest in high-frequency trading (HFT) caused by Michael Lewis’ book “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” makes it important for industry professionals to come up to speed with HFT terminology. A number of HFT terms have their origins in the computer networking/systems industry, which is to be expected given that HFT is based on incredibly fast […]
Are We Heading For Another 1987-Style Stock Market Crash?Stock-Markets / Financial CrashApr 13, 2014 – 02:54 PM GMTBy: Graham_Summers
The big story developing in the US markets regards the sudden crackdown by regulators, most notably the SEC and Justice Department, on High Frequency Trading or HFT.For well over five years now, certain trading firms have been using high-speed […]
The Real Reason the Stock Market Is RiggedStock-Markets / Market ManipulationApr 07, 2014 – 11:23 AM GMTBy: Money_Morning
Everyone’s talking about Michael Lewis’ latest book Flash Boys and HFT (high-frequency trading) and whether the markets are rigged. What they’re not talking about is how the markets have been set up for institutionalized rigging.I’m […]
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,One has to wonder why we are dodging this truth about what we’ve become: a nation that turns a blind eye to skimmers, scammers and legal looting.As in the story of the Emperor’s new clothes, the onlooker who declares the obvious– in this case, that the stock market is rigged–shatters the consensus lie. In […]
