If your statement is true, then I have to conclude there are many seriously evil individuals inside the US govt. Since most of them are unelected, there is no hope of getting rid of the thugs.
Days of hitting buttons like a monkey and making tons of cash are long gone. These days to find your niche you will need advanced programming skills in multiple languages, data management knowledge and moderate knowledge in statistics. I wish I had paid more attention to acquiring these skills...
This market is a ponzi scheme. It will continue to be pumped up to the point where a 50% correction still puts the indices above multi year highs. You and I get to underwrite bens bags full of free money to the TBTF banks. The banks get free money and putting it all in stocks. More stocks get...
Author has market logic incorrect. When price is at 10.00 and he has resting buy orders at 10.40, he would have been filled immediately at market ie at the ask. let's say 10.05. Now his strategy is to wait and till price moves up to his 10.10 resting sell order. I'm assuming the strategy...