You're all victims. cry me a river
Today, CNBC had an interview with NYSE CEO John Thain explaining the 02-27-07 Hybrid-Specialist-stepping-up-to-overcome-overloaded-faulty-computers segment which was essentially aired to mollify, comfort and reassure the CNBC-captive-investor-but-call-me-trader audience so addicted to watching the talking/yakking boobs, as well as the select variety of ever-so-comely CNBC Cheerleader Boobs.Quote from ByLoSellHi:
Pabst, the NYSE admitted technical issues failed to allow orders to be executed in a timely fashion, and that a backlog of orders that had been bottlenecked were released all at once, creating a giant, distorted swing of the index average.
If you were placing large orders on Tuesday, and lost buku $$$ because of it, when you would have lost less, broke even, or alternatively, profited, don't you think it is unacceptable?
I make my living trading. I put down on another thread today what my plans were for today. I executed my plan. I hoped to make 50 per cent of what is my daily average and target is and get out of the market. I again made 60 per cent on trades off the open and sat out the day after just being in the market for five minutes. That said, I have traded for over 15 years almost exclusively on the NYSE. What I see is a disgrace. I traded long before electronic trading and in those days the trick on heavy volume days was getting your broker on the phone. When you did get him on the phone and put in a market order, you could wait within seconds to get an execution report. On another thread in the sub forum of executions, you will see that market orders were not being executed or at least being reported in even close to a timely fashion. That is a big step backward and an utter disgrace. The deal with markets is that if every one approaches their job professionally and responsibly both traders and the exchanges are able to make a nice living. I am both professional and responsible, it is the exchange, the NYSE, who has so miserably failed its job and its responsibility and John Thain inspired zero confidence in me that the NYSE will solve its problems any time soon.Quote from JamesVU2000:
You're all victims. cry me a river
FWIW, as long as it remains avaiable, here's CNBC's Maria Bartiromo & Bob Pisani video clip interview with John Thain, earlier today.Quote from biggerfish:
Today, CNBC had an interview with NYSE CEO John Thain explaining the 02-27-07 Hybrid-Specialist-stepping-up-to-overcome-overloaded-faulty-computers segment which was essentially aired to mollify, comfort and reassure the CNBC-captive-investor-but-call-me-trader audience so addicted to watching the talking/yakking boobs, as well as the select variety of ever-so-comely CNBC Cheerleader Boobs.
In the U.S., if not repeated on the one of this evening's Primetime programs, you can count on seeing the Thain segment
at least a couple of times prior to tomorrow's NYSE Open, on any of the CNBC early morning Business Day programs.
Then again, Thain may be fielding questions in a CNBC follow-up segement about any subsequent, more subtle Hybrid glitches experienced during today's market partial recovery session.
Quote from ByLoSellHi:
spr and risk, you guys are missing the point.
The logjam drop - occurring suddenly - caused waves of selling, program and otherwise - where there may have otherwise been none, had the market been allowed to digest buy and sell orders in ordinary procession.