Quote from regal_2012:
Id love to see daytrading go bye bye.
that would cause less volatility and less noise in the financial markets, a better trading environment.
just a nice stable Market for sophisticated investors/traders like we had in the late 1980s to the late 1990s before all these online brokers came into existence.
first of all you would be paying it up the ass for fills on stocks, volatility would be all over the place because of lack of liquidity. and by the way there was plenty of daytrading going on in the early 80s and especially early 90s, the avg joe just wasnt involved as much yet, the big boys still held fort in that game. average investors dont understand how the playing field has leveled to the point of getting professional executions. if you want you can go back to the old days example would be you want to buy xyz stock 1000 shares bid 48.25 ask 50.10 you take 1000 at 50.10 now your down 2k plus you paid an extra 125 on top of your brokers commission of another 200 bux. you got to remember now discount brokers are no more so were back to the wild west days of screwing the little man with crazy commissions. you see to me this is taking 8 steps back and no steps forward. i am sick and tired of fees fees and even more fees you obviously havent thought this through.

