hey HFT scum, yeah, you. Watch this

There is hardly any accurate information about HFT on the internet. What is this nonsense, confusing flash orders and IOC, and stating that IOC "carries little risk". If you actually worked with this stuff you would know that trying to ferret out hidden liquidity with IOC is risky and (usually) worthless pursuit.

They are also able to initiate large arrays of “flash orders” to ascertain the depth and breadth of the market, and identify if there are willing buyers at some level above most recent trades. Flash orders are small “immediate or cancel” orders, valid only for microseconds, that carry little risk for high- frequency traders. By ferreting out buyer limits, highfrequency traders have vastly greater knowledge of all aspects of the markets’ depth and breadth than individuals or passive investors like pension plans.
 
Quote from stock777:

right, its so hard thats why they make only billions.

good thing , or they'd make trillions

who is they?

Quote from stock777:

With 33,000 views, I assume there are at least a few of you here that are not shills, miscreants, imbeciles, or perish the thought, hft vermin.
Pretty sure in 30k views you have made yourself look like a troll and some decent people have presented valid information about trading and trading on order flow. My favorite thing about you 777 is you refuse to answer questions or address any of the issues that have been raised, you simply post more crap without any substance.
 
Quote from promagma:

There is hardly any accurate information about HFT on the internet. What is this nonsense, confusing flash orders and IOC, and stating that IOC "carries little risk". If you actually worked with this stuff you would know that trying to ferret out hidden liquidity with IOC is risky and (usually) worthless pursuit.

I caught that as well. This is an atrocious oversite for a HFT article. These guys don't even grasp the basics.

Did you also notice that the authors listed the CME as a stock exchange? I think they meant to list the Chicago Stock Exchange, but instead wrote the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

These tards have no premise to their article. Their thoughts are more fragmented than the equity markets which they are criticizing. Allow me to summarize: modern computerized trading is called HFT. *Pages of filler* When the computers all turn off at once, it's bad. *Pages of filler* Conclusion: value investing has been marginalized. (Editor's note: What? A true value investor doesn't care about daily, monthly, or sometimes even yearly price fluctuations. See Warren Buffet for an example. It is not apparent that the authors know what HFT or value investing mean.)

They also seemed confused as to...well...everything. In neighboring paragraphs, they superficially claim that a HFT company does worse in down-moves due to short stock holding costs, while also saying that HFT companies don't hold overnight risk. Well, which is it guys? (BTW: no professional trading company that I have ever been around does worse in down-moves--they all do much, MUCH better.)

I am an options guy, so maybe I am not aware of the phenomenon regarding equity HFT companies keeping a stock price above its "fair price." IMHO, this is a fantasy that the author made up. No company that holds onto a trade for a max of 11 seconds can manipulate the price of a stock for an extended period of time. Anyone with more knowledge about this care to comment?

777, didn't you say that these guys explained HFT issues BETTER than yourself?
 
Quote from TradingScrub:

stock777 has stated his stance multiple times. He's against:

1) Co-location
2) Sub-pennying
3) Unnecessary quote activity

My opinions:
1) Co-location does seem shady. It's technically not "front running" because they're acting on public information that they're just happening to see first. Still, the fact that the exchanges are selling a higher speed connection just feels like a slippery slope to me. Pay the exchange enough money and what else will they give you that no one else can afford? Who knows. Obviously there are always going to be discrepancies in how fast people send and receive data, so this will continually be an edge that is exploited, however, I'd at least like to see impartial exchanges. You want to set up shop in the next building over, fine, but stop lining the pockets of the exchanges and giving them incentives to find other "edges" that they can sell.

2) Sub-pennying needs to go, period. Getting a fill is atrocious and getting worse every day. Can't get filled without getting run over 90% of the time, even if you're the first one in at the best bid/offer. It benefits no one other than HFTs trying to profit by scooping up fills and churning rebates. I'd be willing to guess that a broker acting as an agent would probably round a customer's 15.999 priced order to 16 anyways.

3) Quote bombing seems like it needs to be reigned in. How is flooding the market with 5000 quotes a second not considered market manipulation? Sure, they can be hit/taken but most of the time their sole function is to lag up the system or make something look really strong or weak when there is no real intention to buy or sell.

I'm not against all algorithmic/high frequency trading. If you want to set up a program that is "if x, then y...if then z, then q" and run it on 1000 stocks that's fine. It is the picking of one stock and spamming it with a bunch of useless crap that needs to be eliminated.

i hav to agree with this.
i'm all for progress, and history shows that with progress comes regulation and new laws.
until that reglation happens and those laws r written, a lot of smart people r goin to exploit the advantages; as they should in a free market.

progress shouldnt b stopped.

i'm not mad. i wish i figured it out the software first:D
 
Why does this feel like I'm talking to a child? Sigh.

Quote from stock777:


stocks rip up and down with ranges of 10-100 % a day , and you imagine that none of that is the result of man ip u la tion.
http://www.savetheplanetprotest.com/

No.

There's tons of manipulation in the marketplace. IF we define HFT as any computerized trading, then most of that manipulatin is done by HFT companies.

However, IF we define HFT as any computerized trading, then every shred of value that market makers and the other valuable roles in the markets are also done by HFT companies.

We have regulators that respond to public anger. Much like 777, they can't tell market manipulation from a ham sandwich. They wouldn't know a market structural issue from legit technilogical advances.

We run a real danger of some ass-clown in washington passing blind legislation motivated by public anger, and written with the help of his "expert" banking/finance lobbyist friends. THIS IS A REAL THREAT.

I have been very forthcoming and specific about exact market structural problems. There are real issues that need new laws, rewritten regulation, etc. You have not.

To get angry at everyone, without differentiating between the issues and the legit business practices is intellectually lazy. More importantly it's dangerous. (Or it would be if 777 hadn't thoroughly discredited himself.)
 
ignore the man with his head in the sand. he's not a shill, he's just an imbecile.

Fox reports quote stuffing scandal.

sad to see such denial here.
 
Back
Top