What happened to the old traders

[Clubber Lang]

Pay no attention to these jokers, they Are disconnected from reality. Likely a broker shill or service seller rallying the troops.

surf

One peek at the "Trader P&L" threads from the 00's to today is all the proof you need to see how HFT has annihilated the industry.

 

[recession2016]

One peek at the "Trader P&L" threads from the 00's to today is all the proof you need to see how HFT has annihilated the industry.

are you really blaming HFT for people's inability to adapt? you need to be innovative to survive as a trader

 

[Clubber Lang]

are you really blaming HFT for people's inability to adapt? you need to be innovative to survive as a trader

Deleted my original response.
Not going to get in a flame war with a guy who started trading 2 years ago

Good luck

 

[recession2016]

You're a moron, and there's no doubt you started trading within the last 5 years, probably even less.
I'll leave it at that

Where did HFT touch you? It's ok the bad man can't get to you now

 

[Clubber Lang]

Where did HFT touch you? It's ok the bad man can't get to you now

LOL.
I have more money in my couch cushions than you've ever made trading.

 

[wrbtrader]

I've been away for a long time, almost 15 years. It's good to see the site still active. It looks like a few of the main old names disappeared around 2013-2014, including Don Bright and Oldtrader, for example. Anyone know what happened? Retired on a beach somewhere hopefully?
-J

Some died, moved on to other careers, moved on to other areas of the financial markets, some quit trading, some couldn't adapt after a key change @ exchange, some moved to other social media after getting tired of ET, some already retired and decided trading too risky, some changed user names...others joined a hippie commune.

 

[Mtrader]

Pay no attention to these jokers, they Are disconnected from reality. Likely a broker shill or service seller rallying the troops.

surf

Says the biggest joke(r) on ET...

Go quickly to Magna and ask him to block me in this thread too. Or I will start again about your fabulous 7 losses in a row and can harm your scam business.

 

[Mtrader]

One peek at the "Trader P&L" threads from the 00's to today is all the proof you need to see how HFT has annihilated the industry.

Warning: Ego can seriously damage your brain.

 

[OPG]

My understanding was that most of the scalpers who traded spreads are no longer in the game due to HFTs. I know few traders who still scalp for maybe 5 ticks and/or 2-3 ticks at a time and are rather successful.

 

[java]

ha,ha, The old traders became HFT.