‘HFT is killing the emini’ S&P, says Nanex

Why not just honor FIFO and charge an incidental 5-10 cents per canceled order? That would take care of front-running and quote stuffing.
 
Quote from austinp:


Demand for fills thru directional swings exceeded open interest resting in the market. How hard is that concept to grasp?

uh, y do u think price was moving 3 points per impulse?

duh, ya thimk maybe the thin levels has sumthing to do with it?

just askin, I know yer a playa

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Quote from stock777:

uh, y do u think price was moving 3 points per impulse?

duh, ya thimk maybe the thin levels has sumthing to do with it?

just askin, I know yer a playa


I happened to agree with what you posted. Did you miss that part?
 
Greetings All,

Austinp hit the nail right squarely on the head with his comments about the ES & TF movement these days. I remember those days long ago when these markets made consistently executable turns, even in highly volatile times. V-Turns were the exception, not the rule as they are today.

As I reminisce,....I'm taken back to the "good ole days". Back then, I kept wishing for the day when I could make one keystroke on my computer and execute, rather then having to pick up the phone. Little did I realize or understand the totally dynamic implications of that kind of "efficiency" on the market as a whole.

Well, time passes, and I got my wish.
 
Quote from austinp:

I happened to agree with what you posted. Did you miss that part?

was referring to the second post, and it wasn't clear which side you were on.

hope you enjoyed the video anyhow ;-)
 
That's what I'm seeing too.

Only a.computer can keep up with these price swings.

Quote from ChkitOut:

duh, this whole thing sounds lame.

volatility up, liquidity down. simple.
 
Quote from ASusilovic:

Nanex’s Eric Scott Hunsader — the guy who likes to dig through trading data to unearth weirdly fascinating algorithmic patterns — is out with quite a chart on Monday:

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What is the X-Axis on that chart? is it time of day? What does the color stand for? I assume the Y-AXIS is contracts in the limit book ten-deep?

I suspect Eric does not have the data yet, but the right thing to do is to see how this graph evolves over long periods of time under many different market conditions.
 
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