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Sorry, no false equivalency here. Respect is earned, and those who refuse to be rational and aren't open to changing their beliefs based on evidence don't deserve any more respect than those who believe the earth is flat. I am interested in you as a study of psychology, and feel a little bit...

Thank you botpro for making my point, you types never disappoint! Isn't that fascinating how he throws out a crazy conspiracy theory as fact, and when someone discredits the theory it makes him cling to it all the more? Despite having no evidence he can come up with to support this tightly held...

As an MBA I would tend to agree, although perhaps not for the same reasons. Trading just wasn't seen as an attractive field for MBAs, at least at my school, and as a result there wasn't a lot of recruiting for trading jobs. Some people going to hedge funds, a few to i-banking (although tellingly...

Here goes a great example of how providing facts to the misinformed, versus the uninformed, just makes them hold on to their misinformation even harder, just watch and see botpro's response..... botpro, the claims you're posting from a conspiracy theorist website have been thoroughly debunked...

Volatility makes options go up, not stocks. More like a short squeeze, there's plenty of games going on with this stock.

Perhaps you have that backward? The forward price of a currency is Spot x (1+domestic interest rate)/(1+foreign interest rate). If the interest rate in the U.S. goes up versus Canada, the forward price for USD goes down. Covered interest parity is a completely mechanical calculation which...

There are a subset of people who think that having equal and opposite positions of the same security, usually forex, is "arbitrage" and nothing you say can convince them that this is identical to having no position except you double your commissions. It was such a problem that it's explicitly...

I'm confused, you think a broker is dishonestly manipulating price feeds but you can't tell me who they are because I'm a stranger? Are you trying to protect the broker...who is allegedly ripping you off? Do you think by telling me the name of the broker this stranger is going to break into your...

Which brokers, which stocks? Just because a bunch of people lose money on stocks, blame their broker, and post about it on the interwebs don't make it so my friend. Talk about naivety. I'm very familiar with what re-quoting is (and I could discuss market efficiency with you for hours, are you...

Keep in mind that it's not insider trading if you're not using insider information. Its very possible that a hedge fund had a couple researchers doing a deep dive who discovered that the earnings statement was impossible for a variety of reasons, the fund shorted the crap out of it, and later...

Never been called naive before, guess there's a first time for everything. Here's how it works. If you are accusing someone of a fraud, you don't get to just say that you can't explain how it works but they're real smart so just trust that they're able to pull it off, and if you don't think so...

Again, not what the OP was posting and again, why couldn't you use that to your advantage to post a small trade with a stop and buy/short to your advantage when the "hunting" happens?

Again, this isn't the kind of gross manipulation of a quote feed for some guy's $5,000 account that the OP is worried about. It did happen, and Bernie Madoff ran a hedge fund that was a ponzi scheme. Both were uncovered, and it turns out the vast majority of hedge funds and brokers are honest...

The best part is that those "fundamentals" come from 2012, which is apparently the last time they bothered to let investors know what the company was doing. That kind of looks like the cashflow for my house. Of course my house doesn't have a $9M market cap! They've certainly got a great pump and...

To be fair, articles 1 and 2 are both unconfirmed anecdotal rants and appear to have nothing to do with a broker changing quotes. Article 3 is about a bucket shop unregulated overseas binary options "broker" which does not appear to be what the OP had in mind and which he/she wouldn't even be...

Why do we "go down" when the Chinese sell U.S. debt? If by debt you mean Treasuries, in case you haven't noticed Treasuries are between .26 and 2.6% yield. In the glory years of Reagan they were in the 8% range. So even if the Chinese sell off, so much that Treasury yields go up many hundred...

Don't flatter yourself. You seriously think a multi-billion dollar market cap broker is going to manipulate the market for your piddly few hundred shares? If so, I'd humbly suggest the markets aren't a place for you.

Then be honest with yourself. You're not hedging the value of your house, you're taking a direction bet on the market as a whole. Your house has next to nothing to do with it, because as was pointed out real estate is local and the correlation error between anything you buy and your house will...

Does this represent a shorting opportunity then?

Why so mysterious about FCMs? I'd PM you but why not just share with everyone since there's clearly interest?