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Right and I don't disagree with this but I do think sub 25k is really sketchy whereas a decade ago it was more doable. People shouldn't just give up and not ever try but they shouldn't mislead themselves that they're somehow going to outsmart the market when 1000s just like them thought the...

Yes but they didn't start in 2015.

Unfortunately you're forcing a correlation in that people have mostly been leaving due to interaction style and not just simply leaving for a 100 other unrelated reasons. It's weak at best. Additionally, your attempts at pointing out the fact that I disagree don't take away from the veracity...

Well quite honestly I don't have any specific examples of how it would be abused but my gut feel is there will be an angle on how it will get abused. Also there is actually a downside to this order type: you cannot cancel out of it for 5 seconds. Remember that HFT not only has access to speed...

On the same token there's nothing preventing people from doing both directional and spread trading either in different instruments or different timeframes.

What destriero really means are binary options are a straight up casino style scam. Do not get involved with these things.

As a trader your job is to wait for the right setups and ignore the noise. Axe grinders showing up in "your" threads are not going to hurt your points if your points are sound. Let people make their own decisions on what they see or don't see - and if you're worried about them being affected...

Anything involving "jump ahead" screams abuse.

Oh I'm totally considering them too. Perhaps it came off more about the lower class but in reality anything under the privileged classes is what I mean. Hard working Americans are also being thrown under the bus by these people. "They" won't stop until all the wealth has been transfered in a...

Gee what a big surprise. Wouldn't want the common man to not have to be entirely dependent on giant utility companies now would we?

I think we need to improve the standard quality of life for the little guy or we forever descend into jungle mentality where those at the top have a ton and those at the bottom have extremely little. The way it's been going has definitely been heading toward the latter. Trickle down is idiotic -...

Yes because it looks good from a social aspect. Unfortunately if they're at the same time reducing jobs and hours then it's not costing them a damn thing (while of course continually costing the little guy).

Yep that can definitely happen. There's other instruments (GC, NQ, TF, 6E, DX) but unfortunately there's also a lot of annoying correlation these days as well. That being said sometimes one just needs to forget it and not trade that day - or alternatively wait to see what's going on in the Asian...

My concern with the TSLA H/S is that it seems a little bit too convenient/obvious to anyone looking at the chart. Retail is most likely going to jump on that and big money is probably going to rip their faces off (while their shorts are being filled in the process).

I wouldn't be surprised if they squeeze this yet again. It's not as if they don't know people were waiting for the first squeeze to end. They'll simply exit after the first squeeze and then do it again. In fact with such a high short float why EVER let this thing crash when its more lucrative to...

You invade their threads as well. You do the exact same thing. You refuse to acknowledge that FACT yet are trying to justify your own dysfunctional responses to them due to them initiating something with you? That's a cop out and as someone with a psychological background, as you claim to have...

Yea in the current environment that's most likely how it is. That's not to say we could apply that current context equally if there were more penalty for fleeting orders and more reward for waiting/less parasitic behavior. Let's go back to 2001 or so where HFT was not nearly as widespread. I...

Yes JPM could give no shits whatsoever about what's fair and right - they're merely concerned with losing power and money only. There has seriously never been a bank or banker who has ever been concerned with anything other than making and taking money regardless of how unscrupulous the method is.

This is specifically for synthetic spreading only though. Exchange traded spreads wouldn't have this issue whatsoever. At a certain point what's the bigger problem? The HFT in general or protecting auto spreaders? I mean I definitely hear you on this concern. On the same token I know that...

You never acknowledged the fact that you too do this exact same thing you want a feature to fight back against. Simply stop arguing with Surf and B1S2 on every single thread and 30% of the bitching would probably go away overnight.