Tuesday, September 13, 2011

It's an attack: Cowards hide like cockroaches when lights turned on them


It's strange.

Declare "it's an attack" and identify their antics, and the markets go up, even if it's right before closing after a day of their antics as was the case on Monday's DJIA.

Ignore their antics, even day after day, and the market goes down the same 2 to 4 percent.

Odd.


It has become more likely for stock prices to make large swings — on the order of 3 percent or 4 percent — than it has been in any other time in recent stock market history, according to an analysis by The New York Times of price changes in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock market index since 1962...

So what’s causing the rise in the big bounces?

It’s hard to know for sure, but market analysts point to new types of souped-up computerized trading and extraordinary global economic turmoil — from protests over a second bailout for Greece to the downgrade of United States debt.

This, of course, brings us back to the theme...


Regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission have been looking at changes in the markets and automated trading strategies in connection with volatility. The market is no longer based on one single exchange but is fractured across four big exchanges and several smaller forums. High-frequency traders, using powerful computers to trade at exceptionally high speeds, now account for up to 60 percent of daily turnover.

Sure. Now identify their last names, because they are criminals operating with an agenda and a schedule.

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