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Muciacios: Here is the bad news: markets are about liquidity and there is none. Reason being that market capitalization is in trillions and most of it is sucked by bond market. For equity markets to work it had to be spread out between multiple market centers and liquidity had to be simulated...

If you talking about online trading, lifting offers, hitting bids than you are a trader. As bad as any other trader: automated (HFT) or manual (click). You are part of it and you are there for the money. It is zero sum game. Profit comes from other traders loss. What you trying to accomplish? To...

So what is the future of trading after the tax is introduced? Any educated guess how the trading will evolve in terms of where it will occur, what will be traded etc. Do traders just decide to go fishing and that's all? Question seems highly hypothetical but this much noise about it is not...

Turn the machines back on !!!

HFT is not banned. You can do HFT if you have 1M euro and are certified by the government. This is about who is controlling the market not about HFT. EU bureaucracy cannot stand free markets. They need to print lots of bonds without anybody checking what they are worth.

I read the article; what nurses or grannies know about taxation and economy? I know that anybody can express an opinion but taxation is serious and far reaching stuff. Media is full of naïve coverage. Is there anybody left who knows something about economy or is it going to be run by nurses...

FTT is designed to punish banks or so they say. For what? Bureaucrats blame financial crisis on Banks when in fact government deficits and regulations favoring government bonds as tier 1 were primary reason for this financial crisis. Governments just bailed out themselves by printing more...

Disagreements are good. HFT is about pushing all the paper through the funnel. There is more and more of it each and every day. There are more active players as a function of paper production and global demographics. The source and main facilitator of this are central banks. This is about...

Deficits are facts. Nothing to like or dislike. So you saying that monetary policy (currency related), bond trading (also currency related), equity trading, derivatives, HFT, futures, options, physical commodities are completely separate and unrelated markets that have absolutely nothing to...

It is illegal in securities law but not enforced. Back to basics: this is exchange between two willing market participants. Nobody has any obligation to buy or sell. MM or specialist is only intermediary who matches buyers and sellers. If there is no counterparty that you hold it until one...

The primary dealers are who? The biggest banks with trading desks in bonds, derivatives and equities. Yes the bond part of the game is gentlemen club. The question is where the liquidity in the markets and exponentially growing capitalization is coming from. Also who is buying the bond? Billions...

Government Deficit - Bond Print - Fed Monetizing - Government Bond Dealer banks as middleman playing shell game hiding paper by quickly moving from bonds to equities to derivatives (HFT connection). If this is not enough than you have ECB - Fed -Japan Central Bank shuffle. Simple. And then again...

Top of the list of most active.

Market Makers are HFT. The reason for HFT is quite fundamental: first market capitalization was in thousands then millions recently billions and now trillions. Try to use phones to move this mountain of paper. There is no single MM or specialist who can absorb this market activity and that...

Barrier of entry to HFT is not that high and is getting lower due to competition. You can collocate or be near exchange at reasonable price and compete as well if you know how to make money using it. This field is getting crowded and HFT shops are closing down because they cannot make money...

Everything. That is why people who do not know should ask for opinion instead of offering uneducated guess.

Continuous liquidity at each time frame you require. There is always somebody to buy and sell with no wait, low commission and tight spread. HFT player operates in free markets where nobody should ask why and how often you trade. You can trade at your own speed and it is nobody business what...

Why do we have blackouts ? Should we tax the frequency of alternating current? We should implement Hertz tax.

So if they know could they let me know what will be the next great invention and what should I invest in now to get rich?

Baseless collection of trivialities that "make sense" for the uninformed. So if there is no value in HFT what is the correct frequency? Any hints? Who knows?