SEC Questions Trading Crusade as Market Makers Disappear

The debate over how to keep U.S. stock prices from plunging in times of stress gained urgency after the May 6 crash that erased $862 billion in equity value over 20 minutes.
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There's an app for that. Called a do-over.:cool:

Bust trades, so on and so forth.....
 
as it says in the report.

maximum liquidity when no one wants to do anything.

when the market all wants to buy or sell at the same time - guess what.

no liquidity as every algo bullshit company pulls its orders.
 
Specialists and Open Outcry Pit traders are probably right there with traditional travel agents, cursing the technology and market forces which squeezed their "costs" and livelihoods out of the game. LOL - I guess the skin flint brain trust didn't realize that order matching computers don't add liquidity any more than today's HF algo traders do.
 
“Old specialist obligations” LMAO. So getting rid of the specialists allows the markets to freefall, huh? That's $@#*ing hilarious. Oh yeah, the specialists will dive right in and catch all them falling knives, they don't mind losing a fortune in a crashing market. Their bosses will understand.

Just `cuz these greenhorns don't remember Black Monday, what makes them think nobody else does either?
 
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