Why is this market so dead? Have you all gone broke?

[bonds]

What you talking about this market is dead? High frequency traders are donig thousands of trades a day!! Monster volume!!! Never a dull moment in the high frequency trading world!!

 

[clearinghouse]

Quote from bonds:

What you talking about this market is dead? High frequency traders are donig thousands of trades a day!! Monster volume!!! Never a dull moment in the high frequency trading world!!

No, even HFT guys must be seeing reduced profit in this environment. They depend on volume being high, so volume dropping like this is even worse for them than retail traders because they have to pay very high infrastructure costs.

 

[SatMir]

what a bunch of momos in this thread!

 

[clearinghouse]

Quote from ChkitOut:

3 volatile days in a row = everything is normal

3 tight range days in a row = market is dead forever.

Feels dead forever. I pay my broker, I pay my tech providers, and then I have enough left over for a few value meals.

I'm mostly alarmed by the massive volume drop off in August. If the market stays like that for a while, you're going to see a lot of trader layoffs around Thanksgiving.

 

[Grandluxe]

Quote from Wide Tailz:

Thought experiment:

The Market's job is to make transactions.

It does this by moving price up and down in order to find where it can clear.

When The State forces price level to stay in one place, what would be the result?

:eek:

It means I can take a nap for the next 4 years.

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

Shorted a bunch of SPY at .24. I take back my earlier statement

Quote from clearinghouse:

I had a modest Friday and a decent Thursday. Today is just spinning my wheels and going nowhere. I reduced bet sizes across the board, but hardly anything is ticking on my screen.

 

[high99]

I thought the market was closed today for a holiday. It might as well be. Snore. Doing a little YM scalping just to stay awake.

 

[ChkitOut]

Quote from high99:

I thought the market was closed today for a holiday. It might as well be. Snore. Doing a little YM scalping just to stay awake.

just a little ym scalping huh? lol. thank god you have that easy strategy to hold you over..

 

[noob_trad3r]

Quote from Grandluxe:

Well we are always waiting for something, for ECB, for FED, for Bundesbank,etc. The only thing we should be waiting for is Obama getting the hell out so that real capitalism can return.

We never had real capitalism.

If we did, Tarp would never have happened under Bush, nor subsides for big corn,etc..

Real capitalism means you screw up you lose. Not heads we win, tails taxpayers lose.

Privatizing gains and socializing losses does not equal free market.

 

[high99]

Quote from ChkitOut:

just a little ym scalping huh? lol. thank god you have that easy strategy to hold you over..

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