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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is “rigorously” investigating whether traders are using technology to manipulate markets, the agency’s enforcement and inspections chiefs said today. The initial reports and investigations into high frequency trading and the like came from financial blogs like Zero Hedge and Naked Capitalism. The SEC paid attention. Good. High-frequency trading from Marketplace on Vimeo. Not only do market makers get to see and act on trades before everyone else, they get a rebate every time they trade. Watch their whole video. Our stock markets are rigged, gamed, and give preferential treatment to insiders. Seems corrupt to me. Via Zero Hedge, who has [...] Really, what could go wrong in the Trading Matrix? Move along now, everything is fine. HFT can and does destabilize markets, like when an algo goes haywire or all the trades trend one way for no apparent reason. This is one reason I’m not trading much now, or even buying long-term. The markets, to [...] ArsTechnica explains the world of high frequency trading Supercomputers pitted against one another in a high-stakes battle of attack and counterattack over a global network where predatory algorithms trawl the information stream, competing every millisecond to gain an informational advantage over rivals. It sounds like Hollywood fiction, but it’s just an average trading day [...] Do I care that Goldman Sachs is my enemy now? Pseudonymous blogger Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge lit the fuse here. (His name comes from Brad Pitt’s role in Fight Club.) Now a senator has joined in. It was only a few months ago that a blogger calling himself Tyler Durden and writing for [...] |  | ||||
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