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Is it though? What is their volume as a percentage of the volume on the instruments they track, and for something that tracks the S&P500 for example, the instruments they track are both the ETFs like SPY and all the underlying stock. The 2x and 3x volume is less than a rounding error to that...

Got the wrong century in there I think. Death rate is only part of the equation, you can't jump from death rate to global population killed without mentioning transmissibility and impact on different demographics, as well as small matters like if we happen to have a World War on at the moment...

Vaccines don't "come out of nowhere". If one was available today it would be many months before it's safety and efficacy could be demonstrated to the point it could be used. Especially given the relatively mild danger of the virus, it's not like Ebola or something where you do what are...

I could have sworn you posted to this very thread: Short term memory issues? Now that's just funny, clearly you don't know much about me OR macro!

That went way over your head. Sorry to get you involved in the conversation. Go back to your belief that everyone is a moron because they think coronavirus will kill enough of the world's population to cause economic impact. Thanks for the reminder that Dunning Kruger is alive and well.

It was caused by the .com bust, just like we had in '29 and '57 and ...oh, actually that had never happened before either. Hell we had a recession in 1893 because a railroad failed! Since you seem to like to do this let me make this broad for you.... recessions are often caused by a disruption...

So you're sticking with this idea that only something that caused a recession in the past can cause one going forward? And you think that those who are worried about the coronavirus impacting the world economy are worried because we literally think it will depopulate the world to the extent it...

9/11 However again you're at least two steps behind and looking backward if you insist that the only things that can cause a recession are things that caused a recession in the past. Name one instance where a subprime mortgage crisis caused a recession before 2008?

You're missing the entire point. Not a single person has to die for significant supply chain disruptions that can have a significant ripple effect even on industries several steps removed from the actual disruptions. No one is seriously saying enough people will die to actually change the world...

I think Google could happily just write off Qatar. He can sue there for all he wants, as long as they don't have a business presence there he couldn't ever collect anything. That's kind of how I feel about GDPR, as long as I don't do business in Europe they can impose whatever ridiculous...

It's a pretty strong statement to call Ireland a corrupt country with corrupt judges isn't it? To the contrary it has a reputation in the business world of being extremely business friendly to the point that most would accuse it of always deciding in favor of business over an individual...

You're thinking too linearly. If Google is now responsible for illegal actions in ads, they start to require companies to indemnify Google before posting ads through Google. Google of course realizes that a shell company indemnifying them provides no protection, so they stop dealing with shell...

Google is the entity who collects the payment from the advertiser, it's trivial to make them the responsible party and clearly delineate that in the law. And again, the Adobe example is pretty trivial to write out as well. Simply write a law that states that if you received money directly from...

I think there is a subtle but crucial difference in what you're saying now and what you said earlier. Earlier you were basically saying not to leave the market because the earnings/dividends were at X and in a correction you will get a much higher earnings yield based on the lower stock price...

Electricity prices also go negative locally for similar underlying reasons. It's a well known effect for almost any difficult to store or short lived commodity. Gotta love it when some hotshot "discovers" something everyone in that profession has known all along!

That's very clever, thanks for sharing it. I used to do something similar to trick It by entering an opposite, out of market limit order on the verticals I had on to prevent It from incorrectly interpreting a widening of bid/ask spreads as my vertical losing more than it was possible for it to lose.

Oh absolutely. In a world where The Algorithm, may it protect us from misguidance and evil, behaved rationally and there were humans who were accountable for It's actions. However in cult land of IB The Algorithm, may it be exalted, can do no wrong therefore why would you and I, mere humans...

You aren't differentiating between content that is created on a site by users and paid ads that the site is running. I have been in your shoes as well and can tell you I'd have absolutely zero problem with a precedent that made anyone who sold ads for a living responsible for those ads not...

This is a somewhat dangerous line of thinking because it ignores a massive assumption....that earnings and dividends won't be impacted by a 30% drop in the market. It assumes that not only won't the market fall itself impact the real economy, but the thing causing the market fall won't either...

I'm guessing that since he legged in The Algorithm, may it's name be praised, was too stupid to see it as a spread. As to which position It liquidates first, that appears to be run via a random number generator.