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Other than that I am 99.99% right.

When the California weather is coming to Ontario ?

No. It is just the nature of economic cycles. Certainly big money controls and influences policies and it cannot be separated from politics. I do not think it is planned. It is more consequence of point of no return. Any incremental bond issued beyond that point cannot be possibly paid back and...

And you are one fat and ugly bond trader and you know that they are not the most intelligent bunch! Nothing personal. Leverage intensive is just detail how HFT is done on micro level. I meant leverage as excess liquidity and cushion to support market operations by Central Banks on macro...

That is the purpose - transfer and accumulation of wealth by all means possible.

Sarcastic is fine. Just forget about me - no need to wonder. And yes I think that Central Bank actions are related to the proliferation and need for HFT with their indirect involvement through leverage they provide to major dealer banks that are active in market making which is subset of...

It is simple logic: HFT wins 100% is false And everyone who trades with HFT "guy" loses is false. Which means he does not have a point and by extension this applies to you.

I think that Ninja offers access through C#. Learning C# would give you advantage and is widely used and supported. There are many books, tutorials and online help and Microsoft Express is free and they also offer tutorials. Keep in mind that this is complex programming language and environment...

So what would be the condition for you to make winning trades? Who would you like to trade against? Santa? And your profit from winning trades would come from whom?

QE is inflation and this is the purpose why it is implemented. Part of it is the ability of global economy to absorb this level of currency and debt creation because USD is global reserve currency. Economic effects of inflation are muted domestically due to demographics and growing economies in...

100% agree with that. But what do you mean when using term HFT.

This term is used freely by many and refers to variety of things hence the confusion. Can you provide us with what is your understanding of HFT technology ET style (succint)?

"By comparison, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase each earned more in the last quarter than the high-speed trading " Is this the real reason that the HFT firms have issues because bigger guys teamed together and adopted this technology or can counter act HFT? Hunter become prey?

This is exactly what confuses people - price of goods, price of labor, interest rates etc. Inflation concept is simple. Too simple and therefore scary for policy makers and they go great lengths to confuse everybody. Many buy into convoluted concepts created by "economists". Inflation is...

Low interest rates equals inflation meaning that there is oversupply of money - money is cheap. Inflation is now. Everybody is looking at it and not many see it. When Central Banks start talking about rising inflation the inflationary phase is over and it is too late for an average saver -...

Programming skills by itself mean much less now. Ability to program combined with broad knowledge in specific science or application field makes your skills more marketable.

From the beginning. You have to know and specify what is your trading strategy, then make a choice of platform and coding environment. Algorithm is nothing more than logic expression of your trading idea built using software engineering. From what you have posted it seems that you...

Tax that; If more companies in Europe started to move because of taxes that would help to slow down socialist maniacs on FTT and other taxes. This is from CNBC if anybody missed that: Greece's biggest company is leaving the country, drinks bottler Coca Cola Hellenic (CCH) said on Thursday...

Good idea. Just keep in mind that hard news are of historical value and opinions are often forward looking.

They put Obama on the poster to score more votes. Obama hands are tied by the campain donors so he cannot come publicly endorsing ftt. Democrats (deFazio, Ellison) are trying to make it a law and Ellison act is called "inclusive prosperity act" with tax and redistribution including global...