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All I know is the country is slowly withering away, one industry at a time. Thanks to the greed, extravagance, stupidity & calousness of many, future generations will grow up without much of a future in the US.

Which makes you wonder, WHY, after spending $$$billions on R&D, advertising, building the "brands", STUPID GM shuts down Saturn, Pontiac, Hummer??????????!!!!!!!!! I can understand NOT getting involved in the process of building additional brands/capacity but just wiping out these divisions...

Since the "cash for clunkers" program involves taking your clunker back, then that process of transporting it to the junkyards is probably responsible for the uptick in truck & rail activity, more so than anything else!:D

Because they cancel their fake bids/offers and run like hell as soon as there are real orders hitting them, that's why. Their posted volumes are mostly fake.

Well, it's not like these HFT's discriminate against any particular order/investor class. My point was that those most affected are small traders & investors as they are easier prey for these rip offs.

Do you even know what volatility is? There's "good" volatility and "bad" volatility. The volatility created as a result of these HFT algorithms is BS volatility. Totally manipulative.

Did I say I use stops? But I see the games they play.

That's what some people thought when Markopolous questioned the math behind Madoff's "success". But I know enough about algorithms to know that many of these are or ought to be illegal and are designed to suck investors' money pennies at a time but amounting to $$$billions a year.

Dude, you're mixing apples & oranges here. Of course the market decline had nothing to due with algorithms! What I'm asserting to is INTRADAY volatility. The volatility of the first 30-60 minutes of trading each morning. The volatility of every 10 minute segment of trading throughout a day...

Not only that, but banks call any dipshit order taker/sales jerkoff a "trader". Yeah, they're hiring real traders, alright.

Expensive ripoffs.

Yes. Just look at market dynamics of last 3 years. They correlate with increased HFT to a T! And their profits come at the expense of small traders/investors because of the manipulated activity. Take Goldman, for example. You think their HFT algorithms are so special? HFT algorithms don't...

Calling somebody a "liquidity provider" because they trade to get the rebates is BS. These scumbags do NOT provide liquity. In fact, they TAKE liquidity! Yeah, they add billions of shares traded but instead of helping the system, they manipulate & bleed it dry. Did their "liquidity" help in any...

First, a lot of these "firms" DON'T provide "liquidity"! What they do is in many cases manipulate prices. The structure of the US market has changed in the last few years because of the stupid & greedy exchanges allowing these leeches to suck the small investors dry, 1 penny a share at a time...

Don't forget filtering for bad ticks.:p

Well, the good news is while you're busy, busy writing your program, you won't be losing much through trading.:D

I'm a damn good race car mechanic & off-road driver. I'm thinking about building my own car from scratch. A lot of cars on the market today have too many bells & whistles (mirrors, radio, heater, air) who needs those things to race the Baja500? I'm debating whether I should use a diesel or...

As I said, I think that's why they're keeping the program around, to feed MetaStock. Their customer service at Equis is good. But again, they don't seem interested in really expanding their customer base and haven't come out with an updated version in a while. Kind of makes you wonder what...

RickshawMan, I have QuoteCenter. In my opinion, the data is good quality. The program itself is a little outdated. It's rock-solid. Up 24/7/365 but they need a new updated version. The program would really kick ass if they were to introduce an API for the data. It wouldn't cost much &...

Crap like this makes people hate traders and look at them as a bunch of greedy degenerates. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/business/global/04optiver.html