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I'm not here to discuss your macro positions, talking about HFT reg.

Untrue. Markets are way off 09 lows and public participation is at historic lows. Trading is also at historic lows. Volumes are dropping fast. 95% of daily volume is run by harold & kumar.

They will need broad public participation to continue the trend. Also, scientists proved that it takes 50ms to identify a man's sexual orientation. This amount of time of honoring quotes will improve trading.

Would be solved if the regulators passed rule to enforce minimum 1 second time period that a quote to buy/sell stock would remain valid. Cancels permitted after 1 second. Investor confidence would soar.

It's like debating with a black woman.

what do you mean? Real profitable traders don't use either quotes or charts.

i had alot bad days closer to my worst than any day close to my best.

Best day: 1.2 MM Worst day: 535k

Any drug will KILL you as a trader long term.

cos there are no jews there.

Dollar can go up or down now. It simply does not matter.

Markets wil collapse.

u are the most read thread in elitetrader.

What, you didn't hear? They announced recession over. Things are back to normal now.

I manage a fund with 9 figs in assets. No I'm not complaining. I'm just reporting on how markets are broken and how it will eat itself soon. The cancer grows larger undetected. And all y'all especially Maverick are stuck in the allegory of the cave watching shadows.

- Prop trading was banned at banks. Market making was not. - Bank market makers are prop trading in disguise. - Banks should not be making markets utilizing public FDIC deposits. - Somehow, this was ignored in Finreg as possible systemic risk even after the CDO mess and financial crisis...

the moneychangers can only survive in their surrogate states thru usury and bubble/bust.

Obfuscating stupidity is where appearing a little dumb can be the deceiver's best friend. Do I need to spell out everything for you? Aren't you all traders where the job is to seek out hidden gem under the belly of deceit?

yawn, commission rates and payout %'s are more fun to talk bout.

The problem lies in the fact that these markets don't trade off supply/demand but in a correlational matrix superlevered into monstrous macro hedges and cross derivatives. If nobody's learned anything from the CDS MBS and CDO markets, this discussion is pointless. Liquidity is eventually...