hey HFT scum, yeah, you. Watch this

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LOL – every complaint is taken “very seriously” when filed.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-02/sec-said-to-probe-role-of-canceled-orders-in-crash.html

From the link above: “They were orders with no intention of being executed because they were so far out of the market.”
How is it that one can define “so far out of the market” on a day that the Dow moved almost in both directions within minutes. Please… explain this to me. In my opinion on a day with a 5% move almost all bets are off as to where people are bidding/offering.

Quote stuffing is something that can be regulated down to a bid/offer band based on a percent move of a given stock – nothing more, nothing less. Currently its legal (unless deliberate manipulation can be proved) so get over it. I love how at first it was HFT, now its Quote Stuffing (which is more often than not Layering but people don’t know the difference).

What happened to 777’s delayed-data argument? Nanex seems like a GREAT solution – they introduce latency on both the sending and receiving end of their feeds. It is amazing to me how so many can stand behind a firm who falsely advertises the sale of historical data as real-time data. The Nanex crew are a bunch of scam artists. They introduce latency into their data feeds and their claims of “compression” of data over slow internet and slow processing power is just plain false. No matter how you slice it you can’t shove 50lbs of sh*t into a 5lb bag.

Time & time again, the uninformed are rallying behind another firm taking advantage of them.

Joke’s on you!



When i see a order for 100,000 shares cancel after the stock drops 50 cents and the orders helped scare everyone out of the stock i call up each time. Today i called up 12 times. I have lost my life trading and these pr!cks are part of the reason. I will call everyday in each and every stock i see and give the detail of the trades
 
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been telling you the score for months, glad you finally realize tj is scum

What are you talking about?

Winston tries to insert some realism and actual professional expertise into your shit throwing tantrums. He isn't a shill. He has flat out listed many of the actual problems that need to be fixed, while also differentiating between the issues that are simple misplaced public anger.

Much like the average joe six pack, I don't think you know enough about market structure to understand what you are pissd at. I am certain you haven't thought through your anger long enough to know why you are angry at Winston.

How about answer one question without using childish namecalling, ok? In regards to Winston's professional opinions, what exactly do you disagree with?

I am willing to bet that you can't formulate an answer.

The forum is waiting.
 
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So is walking up/down or just flashing at a fixed price 47,000 times in 11 secs in BPOP or 3,000/s in APOL or 2,500/s in SPAR or 15,000/s in XLF (yes you read that well) just enough to be considered quote stuffing? unequivocally, yes.


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Finally regarding times stamps, the problem is that when CQS is overloaded (quote stuffing?), it lags and disseminates lagging data tot he public, but you don't realize that since it is time stamped upon dissemination not as it enters the queue. Naturally if you pay the price and subscribe to Openbook you get the privilege to have a perfectly non lagging data.During the Flashcrash, the CQS delay vs the Openbook feed went as high as 24 seconds in General Electric.... . But I was shocked to see that this CQS/Openbook delay happens on regular days as well, giving an UNFAIR advantage to Openbook clients for latency arbitrage opportunities. Unfair as every participant should have the same NBBO. Here is the best part, there is a correlation between the CQS/Openbook delays and the CQS message rate.

In other words, you can overload the market with quote stuffing algos, create latency and use that for latency arb strategies. To me that should be plainly illegal and it's another reason to ban quote stuffing.

These are excellent points. We are finally having an actual discussion in this thread.

I think the exchanges should strictly limit the order to fill ratios of non-market-makers, and more liberally limit the non BBO/NBBO quote price changes allowed to market-maker companies.

Besides implementing some extra charges for over-quoting, or for charging for orders if the order to fill ratio gets past a certain number, what would you suggest should be done to discourage quote stuffing?
 
perfect example of how FUBAR US stock market really is for retail guy.
i was trying to sell some of these "leftovers" for days..
see those 200 shares on ask @ 1.66-those are mine.
i was only one seller @ that price since like 9:25 or whatever..over 1K shares traded on screenshoot around 10:30 at my price according to IB's T&S... my order was never filled. this is how US market works today..there is no fucking time,size or whatever priority any more. oh...price!... i'm pretty certain that those trades not really @ 1.66. they probably traded @ 1.6599,but IB display them as 1.66. so... here we are..retail guys..last in line,hands are tied and blind...can place sub penny order and can't even see "the real prices"..is it so hard for IB to give us a choice at least to see those trades with like 4 digits after decimal points? plenty of changes in new TWS..so much and so many of them ,that the people are begging for older versions..
 

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Quote from Jerkstore:

These are excellent points. We are finally having an actual discussion in this thread.

I think the exchanges should strictly limit the order to fill ratios of non-market-makers, and more liberally limit the non BBO/NBBO quote price changes allowed to market-maker companies.

Besides implementing some extra charges for over-quoting, or for charging for orders if the order to fill ratio gets past a certain number, what would you suggest should be done to discourage quote stuffing?

Jerkstore, I posted this in another thread. These are the Nanex recommendations...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2946321&highlight=nanex#post2946321
 
Quote from stock777:

shills and posers.

Not much more embarrassing than acting the fool in your own thread.

Pro tip: there are now people having a real discussion here. They do not agree unconditionally with Winston. At your demonstrated comprehension and maturity levels it seems necessary (though probably pointless) to spell that out.

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How about answer one question without using childish namecalling, ok? In regards to Winston's professional opinions, what exactly do you disagree with?

I am willing to bet that you can't formulate an answer.

Well, 777?
 
Quote from lurefo:

It seems you're taking it personal now.

You've been shown serious studies which are - again - undisputed on this board or by the industry. These are cold hard facts.

I can't blame you for trying to discredit the Nanex guys in a last attempt to save face but we all know they could be selling donuts it woudln't change their findings. Facts are Facts my friend, everything else is smoke and mirrors and is of no interest.

I came to this thread to question their studies, we have the answers now. Let's not put everyone in the same boat, but clearly, the HFT world needs a good clean-up to say the least.

Good luck.
What am I taking personal or who am I getting personal with?

The fact of the matter is that 90% of traders use retail brokers and their orders never see the light of day. The retail firms set their price structures to make it cost prohibitive to send orders directly to the exchange. Because those trades never see the light of day, they aren't really impacted by what most on this board and in this thread consider to be "big bad HFT". The irony though, is that the retail guys are THE MOST impacted by HFT and you don't even know it or understand it.

Think of it as trading in two different universes - I never see your orders and you will never see mine. The HFT/Arb boxes out there that you guys complain about are in my world while the much more criminal HFT Internalziation boxes that I complain about are in yours.

We all agree that manipulation is bad, we all see that 777 can do nothing but avoid questions and call people names but why continue the ignorance? Why not try to learn about the markets and understand the difference between Layering, Quote Stuffing, HFT with & without order flow and Internalization?

As for the Nanex guys. I don't agree with them 100% but that's my personal opinion. As for their claims, I think they are getting a massive ZH/Tinfoil hat type following based on some pretty graphs and pushing the fear that low latency HFT manipulates markets and is therefore bad. Their articles offer some facts and many opinions - quite possibly educated opinions, but still opinions. This is like a bunch of children that take everything they read as fact. Don't you understand marketing and spin? Don't you know that the people making money mind their own business, keep quiet and don't advertise... Usually the people who need the attention don't have much to offer. (Take 777 as an example)
 
pay no attention to the shill.

fact is, crimes are committed and then when the heat gets too high they stop. then shills like tj claim nothing ever happened.
 
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