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I have no problem with HFT, but fraud disguised as HFT. Sending millions orders and then cancelled all of them, this didn't add liquidity and making market more efficiently, it only worked as shills, who want to go shopping at store where so many shills walking around its customers.
i have no problem with HFT either..but for some reason i can't get a fill at bid or sell at ask no matter what..i'm always last in line. PERIOD. even i was only buyer or seller at that time..thousands of shares passing by at my price and no fill for me,even if i was only one,who actually bidding.. how f**d up this is? priorities mean nothing today..it's a f** wild west....as been reported already- submit\cancel\modify - 20000 PER SECOND! that's their speed! on some shitty low volume stock WTF? does this makes any sense to anyone? this kind of shit should be BANNED. BANNED that is. just like spammers on internet. cause this is exactly what that is-SPAM with no intention to buy or sell. most of the time their whole game is to push you to buy at ask and sell at bid. very fucking simple