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simple, eloquent and so true

america isn't preservation of "prestige" america is complete realization of risk and outcome

what value do the existing financial oligopoly contribute to the lives of everyday americans? i personally believe after a brief degree of pain, we will all be FAR better off with value based money and a true free market that efficiently rewards and punishes real economic decisions. the...

cool. i have no idea either. it's partly wishful thinking over here. for better or worse i think small traders have substantially more opportunity in a more diverse marketplace.

true. it's darwinism either way, just a question of whether it's survival of intelligent risk taking, or survival of plugged in institutional employees de-concentration of wealth. a larger number of smaller participants. more competitive, liquid markets that aren't dominated by a handful...

allow them to default and bingo, the free market has solved it. i guarantee you no financial firm would ever do it again in the wishy washy world of bailouts, firms do this shit cuz they know they cant be allowed to fail

wow thats cold ppl. your expectations are whack. michelle obama is a normal person. not some prada ad

you want a free market for retail scalping, but you object to a free market for real labor. o k joe sixpack

ditto. elaborate or share the sentiment i'm arguing that there may be societal value to this policy, given how abstracted the financial economy has become from a real price discovery mechanism for real assets. does trading for trading's sake have marginally declining value or even...

i don't mind the criticism, but really .. you need to step outside your assumptions. you're thinking as a free agent with no stake in the survival of the whole.

maybe i am retarded. help me out... i'm certainly open to that possibility. should a transaction imply the intention to own an asset? is it sustainable to conduct a financial economy increasingly based on the intention to profit off the rules of the system rather than the value of the...

"know how to trade" i love it lol you have no idea what my story is bud

good question. seems like the higher the transaction fee, the longer the avg hold frequency would increase. i'm hard pressed to imagine this actually happening, especially without exceptions given to certain segments of the market that would basically kill the value to me personally...

i guess it's mostly scalpers weighing in here with all the animosity. personally i agree with MC and was saying the same thing recently. a flat transaction fee applied across the market (to all participants - no exceptions) would reduce high frequency trading and probably noticeably improve...

"something's only worth what you can sell it for" ..didn't they tell u that in orientation? MTM should henceforth be Mark To Size @ Bid. If you don't have or can't identify an executable bid, it has no value. make the entire order book transparent. the fed, treasury, banks, funds, even...

any person, fund, bank, country or planet that was trading so close to the brink of collapse that a date with the fed/treasury is make-or-break for their business, deserves to go to shit cmon assholes... is this a free market or not? somewhere buried under a zillion manipulative...

i hate excel 2007 with a genuine passion the first time i saw it in a public library, i assumed it was some obscure version written for total idiots

i've held a pet theory, that if paper wealth becomes extremely concentrated in too few hands, the only direction for that paper to go is down in value. this is probably one giant, perhaps extended, dead cat bounce in USD paper. a lot of the world was leveraged more, inspiring a flight to...

c'est la vie amex. thieves slip quietly into the night under different names