KENA wrote:SWALSH..HFT article still on Clusterstock..Skroll dn 2-3 pages to 17 hrs ago and it is there.
Thanks...great article explaining why none of us will be doing this is 2-4 years. They are talking less than nanoseconds now. The mkt is quickly becoming who can jump the slower guy's order first. Trading ideas are obsolete. It's how fast you can get into the other guy's pockets. I seem to think that ultimately, investors will leave (many have already left) and they can televise "HFT Poker" on ESPN.
http://www.businessinsider.com/60-of-tr ... orm-2012-2
(in part)
"Hibernia Atlantic is building a $300 million trans-Atlantic cable to cut data transmission 6 milliseconds compared to Global Crossing. Spread Networks just linked Chicago to New Jersey with a high-speed connection. And if anyone figures out how to bore straight through the Earth, you can be sure they’ll have customers. Eyebrows are raised particularly when exchanges themselves sell low-latency links. Nasdaq’s co-location business has been under regulatory scrutiny since 2009, and the NYSE is seeking special permission from the SEC to sell more co-lo. Others can’t help wondering if this game is rigged. Are some competitors being kept away from fast links? And do some others get a cross-connect a few feet shorter, and few slices of a second faster in even the best locations? Many of these complaints are spurious, but can’t be totally dismissed. Markets thrive on confidence and transparency, and when people suspect cheating, they stop playing."
$300 million for six milliseconds! Cesspool America is going to just love the growing disparity of incomes as one can read on that page about well-educated, hard working people who have lost jobs and are now on welfare.
If anyone thought America had a Manifest Destiny I think this was the last nail in that coffin. Because while some might call this wizard technology that pays the best programmers, what this really should be called is
high-speed theft. Imagine if those people actually went into manufacturing and gave us a competitive edge?
I keep thinking back to Grasso's appearance on one of the financial networks (MSNBC I think) saying to rip them all out. 12 hours later that video was not available.
Thanks