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That's the equation. More like a law. Smart people have decreased daily trading. There always needs to be a loser in the markets and there is a smaller supply of them now, yet ambitious as ever to take a shot. No wonder Bernank intervenes the market, pretty soon it will be the only dumb...

Flash crashing kills confidence in the real market, which lies between two real human beings. The greater good is at stake. If that's free market then so be the consequences of ruining a century old platform to facilitate transactions between real humans.

Some people have no imagination.

It is sad and pathetic. Real growth is over. Now we're just betting on individual's decisions, not collective ones of the market.

You make a valid point. How I define working is not collapsing, which is a low bar above the grand canyon below. The post below yours is the point. Money comes from debt, the whole thing is a pyramid that one day collapses. There's a lot of people in this country who think they will survive...

HFT arbitraged dumb traders and now wants to blame the Fed. GTFO. The Fed is in control of the market and thank god. Because if it was free wheeling right now, we'd see split second crashes and rallies, like TV Snow and the HFT algorithms would be fighting eachother to the death and taking...

But it is working. The markets are going up. Who in the room doesn't understand this? These economists hyperventilate because the Fed can't keep what they do a secret anymore. Which is nothing. It's just about money and debt, creating enough new debt to purchase the old debt. Wash, rinse...

The Federal Reserve or the secret portion of the congressional budget for defense is buying Facebook shares. They want Facebook to succeed. If Facebook saw demand for their ad space go down, you can bet the government will put a bid under them. I do not believe the best online tool for...

It's obvious ET is missing the pilots flying the plane.

Volume and price action are going to die until the market converts traders to buy and holders. If you don't want to be converted, you get out and stay out until you see with your eyes.

Bob you're right. The price to live is all that matters. Right now to live, seminar salesman are trying to sell you on futurist type fantasy based on no fact except what is hot now. It can't be predicted, but the price of oil, food, taxes, can be and it's not looking good.

Sounds like somebody is getting sold a bill of goods.

This is the best post in a while. Bet the farm.

Anybody blindly long will wake up one day ready to take the money again to find out they just lost the past 50 days of gains.

Upper class made zero risk bets with borrowed Fed money. Then through political influence, passed a bailout in congress in record time. Now work begins to make the middle class pay long term for their bad investments to eachother. The top is shrinking, yet getting more powerful. Any questions?

If Icahn had any credibility left, it's on the line now. If he doesn't pull this off, he might as well retire.

Algorithms have defeated human traders and no press release has officially announced this victory. The Fed is backstopping the market now because it has to. Computers have taken captive ownership and if they are not given trades to skim they lock up in infinite loops. The Fed computer feeds...

I agree with what you said. There are two separate issues going on and I didn't segregate them. Just independent HFT and banks that have HFT trading operations. The conclusion remains. A super computer will beat a human chess player every time. The human will take some of the computer's...

There are aberrations inside still. We have to expect that 30k is phoney and a losing attempt to attract a casino player. Every casino has a slot machine that is dusty, in the corner and doesn't get played by clientele.

HFT computers have almost depleted the independent human day traders. This has setup the match they wanted all along. A continual shakedown of the Federal Reserve, whereby the Fed recognizing it can never let the market go down again in a large amount, they will threaten a flash crash to...