1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

Quote from tomahawk:

Dr. Z has an interesting take on it in the 3rd post from the top on this page...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...64&perpage=6&highlight=parasitic&pagenumber=4
all i know is that i am a liquidity provider. i dont flash monster size, bang away on the bid trying to take down a stock for 1 penny, etc. i come in, and tighten the spread, or i float at layers i think something might be undervalued, or overpriced - and hence helping every MOM and POP trying to get PANIC orders filled. the service i provide, is 100% benefical for every 401k, and pension individual. And, I take on all the risk associated with price, and perceived price as determined by myself. i just dont see, how this is bad. yet, i understand, arguements against Wall Street, etc.
 
Quote from TraDaToR:

Damn, fucking Kouchner( french foreign minister ) is talking about the damn thing in french newspapers. Didn't find a link in english.

He's claiming that UK is open to talk about it in a further G20. He talks about a light version of 0.005 %.

US people, you are my last hope. Obama mustn't enter their game.

The 1/4% won't ever pass, even 1/10th% wouldn't pass... but 0.005% may pass and while it would make things exponentially more expensive, it would not in my opinion ruin daytrading other than millisecond traders.

Ultimately I'm still in the camp that no tax of the sort passes.
 
TraDaToR,

What exactly was said in the paper? .005% in stocks and futures or would there be a different % for each asset class like futures/stocks/options all having different %'s?


Thanks
 
He said it would depend on the financial product.

He is also referring to german asshole minister Peer Steinbruck and said that "UK would be open to talk about it in a meeting of 58 countries and non governmental agencies" ( ? )

I don't know what "group" he is referring to... But it's not good.
 
This link is about currency transactions, the one I read was on "financial transactions". It might be an error from the newspaper. I prefer the real version from Kouchner( I don't trade forex..LOL ).
 
The French guy has been proposing this for years now, to no avail. Its tough to get the US on board for any international tax. There is a better chance of it hapening within our soil then on an international level. I still do not think it will happen here. The NGO'S he is talking about are all teh liberal help and feed the world NGO'S at the expense of everyone else.
 
Don't have time to read 200+ pages, maybe someone already brought this up. If the broker dealers would be exempt from this tax, wouldn't all the prop traders be exempt too since they are employees of a broker dealer they trade through?
 
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