Stockmarkets rigged by high-speed traders

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  1. trew

    trew Active Member Silver Stacker

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    Altima Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    I vaguely remembering somebody pointing out that you don't necessarily need to ban it outright.

    Just tax them (alot) for each transaction and make it less appealing to do HFT.
     
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    Other countries have tried adding a financial transaction tax (FTT) and it didn't t work out so well:

    A better solution would be to simply increase transaction fees substantially when a trading firm exceeds a certain number of messages per second so it wouldn't be profitable to send huge numbers of HFT orders that quickly get canceled.
     
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    Been happening for decades. This is what the financial sector does to the rest of the economy. Now they are doing it to themselves so everyone suddenly has a problem?
     
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    Actually just a few rule changes would do it without taxes.

    Preventing an order from being cancelled for 30 seconds once placed would screw up many of the hft strategies.
     
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    Was reading some commentary on the article and apparently the issue is spacial arbitrage brought about by the Americans having something like 50+ exchanges spread all over the place. So the solution the guys in the article came up with is a good one... time the sending of orders so that they arrive at all exchanges simultaneously:

    Alternatively, just centralise somehow all buy and sell orders to do away with this problem altogether.
     
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    I blame the Superannuation Funds myself.
     
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    trew Active Member Silver Stacker

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    For what? They don't do any high frequency trading.
     

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