Quote: (04-02-2014 04:41 PM)Lou pai Wrote:
You would cripple the markets if you did that because there would never be any liquidity. If you wanted to sell a stock, who would buy it?
HFT has been around for a long time and is not harming anyone. If you want we could go back to the 90s when you were paying a 100 bucks to execute a trader and there was huge markups in the stocks you traded. Scalping has been around since the invention of the stock market, the only difference it is quicker now.
Who gives a fuck if you cripple the markets? The purpose of a stock exchange is not to facilitate gambling and speculation, it's to allow investors to purchase shares of companies. If you aren't willing to hold onto your shares for at least a year then you aren't investing, you're gambling. We need to get back to an idea of actually owning shares of a company instead of just trading them like fucking baseball cards. If you own a share, you OWN it. You are a partial owner of that company entitled to a fractional share of its profits. If you don't want to become a fractional owner of the company over a long term time horizon, don't buy the stock. There is absolutely no productive reason for stocks to be changing hands as much as they do now, especially with HFT where positions can be held for fractions of a second. It's completely ridiculous and has nothing to do with actually creating wealth.
To be frank, we would be a lot better off if the modern day stock market was crippled. It has long since lost sight of its original purpose and has become nothing more than a gigantic casino and money skimming operation.
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