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It may or may not be arbed out. What if only one or two market participants have access to this information. The exchange can work out as well as you or I that if this is available to everyone then the advantage is gone and so is their income stream. Anyway, the argument seems moot to me. I...

This is a subtle point, but my problem with this issue is that there are market participants who are being routed the data before it is placed in the market. It's not even market data at this point, it's future data. So they are able to step in front of orders that don't exist in the market yet...

This isn't about paying for a service. This is about the fairness and integrity of the markets. Ever play Blackjack? Having live data is just like a standard game of blackjack. You pay to play and you see each card at the same time as everyone else. But lets say you can play this new game...

This is a disgrace. Why is front running on such a massive scale allowed? Isn't this comparable to insider trading? These companies pay for inside information on what the entire market is doing!!! I find it incongruous that there exists a law against insider trading by an individual yet insider...

I stopped reading this thread at this point and had to make a comment. I don't know if anyone else commented on this but are you kidding me?!? You knock a man with convictions! My god, that Ron Paul believes in America's Constitution! Now there's a bunch of unrealistic convictions. Can...

Well said.

Don't blame the banks, blame the government and the US citizens who have for so long been addicted to easy money. At the top you have the drug grower - Government Then you have the dealers - Banks Then the addicts - People Now you have the growers and banks coming together to work out a...

At 0.1% that's $1 off a $1000 item, hardly earth shattering. But we should all listen to the current lot of experts, they've done such a good job so far. Here are the conclusions of a paper from January 2004 by the Minneapolis Fed. http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr331.pdf II...

Do western populations have it in them anymore to stand up to their governments let alone revolt? Case in point, the AIG bonuses furore. Is this really the main game? What about the trillions already stolen? The bureaucrats and politicians know how to placate the public and give them their token...

He was by know means perfect I'll grant you that. But that doesn't invalidate what he wrote. In fact he was right. Intelligence and sophistication has no bearing on what's right and wrong. After all, the last round of financial engineering was very sophisticated and look where it's gotten us...

Human behaviour is what drives economics, not computer models, and human behaviour hasn't changed in a very long time. "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you...

LOL The land of the free and the home of the brave! Please Mr Banker, we're sorry for that Independence War thing, please come back to save us. Enslaved by the bankers. Hook 'em up, reel 'em in. Too easy.

America is a disgrace. Someone got killed for what?, cheap junk that isn't even needed. Pray that you never need to line up for anything important...say food! America produces nothing, consumes all. You are now reliant on a communist nation for your very survival. Let's hope that the good ol'...

Doctor, we have a drug addict going through cold turkey, what should we do? We don't want any suffering, call his drug dealer to get more drugs, pay any price. Tell him there'll be no police. Drug dealer: See doc, drugs aren't so bad. Look how much better your patient is. They'll need more...