Yep. But faceless posers love to claim they have it beat, makes them feel good.
My contention is, if you have to work twice as hard to extract a $1 from the market as doing something else, then you're the sucker.
I can tell you this, whatever you have to do today vs 10-15 years ago to make money, it's a lot more tortuous.
Almost like real work, which , if you can get it, is SURE money, and paid vacation.
This aint.
For intraday trading, the 1c a share round trip is too expensive. You cant buy on the bid or sell on the ask most of the time , unless its the WRONG trade, so effective vig is at least 2 cents for quick scalps.
Zero or near zero is the right price.
Non hft traders simply have been elbowed out...
Starting to think the layout thing is user error.
As in , the user made the mistake of being a client
I can only hope zzzzzzz1 adds more than one tab and 3 cols one day and is infected
hft co location and bots everwhere have made buying anything torture, except for the most liquid names. And even there, any news and the rug is pulled instantly.
Like trying to trade bitcoin when a big drug dealer has the feds at his door and he has to unload fast
I think its probably an offshoot of the same strat in another thread where the guy goes long and short the same thing and dumps the loser so fast he wins.