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Subject: Welcome to the Machine Thu 06 May 2010, 6:40 pm
"So this is what high-frequency trading looks like. Just before 3pm today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from being down about 180 points, mostly off continuing fears over the Greek debt crisis, to falling off a 900-point cliff, to then rallying back another several hundred points. All in the span of about 20 minutes. During that span, share volume spiked to its highest levels in over a year, to over 4 million shares being traded in the Dow Jones alone..."
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Subject: Re: Welcome to the Machine Thu 06 May 2010, 6:50 pm
Geez, I'm sure glad they cleared that up!
In a nutshell, the financial media totally fumbled the coverage regarding what really happened. They are advertising how we rallied from a 900-pt. decline to down only at the close. What a carnival show! As I said earlier, we have been due for a decent correction. Unfortunately the media coverage wanted to steal the show with many misguided comments during the afternoon selling. We'll be sure not to be distracted from this kind of nonsense. There are numerous issues for investors to worry about, and unlike what I heard from one of the "market pundits" on television, we did not certainly wash things out in 90 minutes as they would have you belive. The "crash" was clearly phony, as was the subsequent "rally." Read more: http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2010-05/dont-be-fooled-by-todays-crash-and-subsequent-rally-anf-ms-pnc-bac-more.aspx?storyid=20736#ixzz0nBzp67oj
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Subject: Re: Welcome to the Machine Thu 06 May 2010, 7:29 pm
A long time ago I used to trade in Gold and Silver, but I stopped after I noticed the same behavior in the trading graphs overnight, just before the US markets would open, they'd crush any gains in the price of the metals so that US traders could not take profits in the morning. It got so that I could set my watch every morning by the glitch in the graph. It was obviously programmed trading.
Well, it was not long after I realized that the entire metals game was rigged that I got out, and stopped participating in their financial industry altogether.
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Subject: Re: Welcome to the Machine Thu 06 May 2010, 7:40 pm
Trading in gold and silver is just more paper assets. Actual metal buried somewhere is another story.
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Subject: Re: Welcome to the Machine Thu 06 May 2010, 9:32 pm
"Apres moi le deluge. After me, the deluge." – Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, falsely attributed to King Louis XV
Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed by nearly 1,000 points over several minutes before recovering. About 800 points of the drop occurred in about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, gold spiked over $1,200, closing at a near all-time high in United States dollars after setting all-time highs in Euros, Swiss franks, and British pounds. And just last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article about how market traders are now using video game processors to beat out their competition in a game of milliseconds.
The below is a June 2009 interview with Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading. Pay close attention to the entire video
"The volume you see during the day right now.. is FICTITIOUS... It's NOT REAL.. It's done by what they call high-frequency traders. These are machines. The biggest machine out there wins the game nowadays. And these people deal in subseconds. 50 milliseconds is a huge amount of time. Any over that and you are a dinosaur... What they do all day long is basically buy and sell and they try and collect liquidity rebates from the exchanges who are basically in partnership with them. They trade for no apparent fundamental reason...
"The trick to the market here is that the high-frequency guy does not add liquidity, he adds VOLUME. And there is a big difference between liquidity and volume. [If] volume is 12 billion shares, who cares? If a news event occurs, and there is no more liquidity anymore, the trapdoor opens and no one is there to buy... I have a feeling one day the door is going to close. Everyone is going to be running for the exits. There is going to be a major move in the markets and everyone is going to wonder "What happened?" What did that crazy guy on Bloomberg Television say that day about high frequency traders? There is a problem structurally in the equity markets that nobody wants to talk about. There is intervention, there's manipulation going on."
I certainly do not yet know exactly what happened in market today. The CNN link above mention issues with Proctor and Gamble stock, but the fact remains the stock market is not a great bellwether for the economy anyways. With rampant unemployment caused by the government, and events in Greece and elsewhere unfolding quickly, we certainly are living in unsustainable and wildly unpredictable times. Many have been lulled into a false sense of stability - 2010 is an election year, after all. Many have been surprised by the levels of chaos in Greece, but the current events were not hard to foresee - though the exact timing is impossible to predict - like this article on the Greek rioting and US banking system I wrote.... in 2008.
As I wrote in "One Step Closer to the End of the Golden Brick Road," investigating for yourself the massive size of the gold market and its alleged manipulation is time well-spent. There IS a reason why the American people have been lied to.
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May 6, 2010
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Subject: Re: Welcome to the Machine Thu 06 May 2010, 11:37 pm
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Subject: Re: Welcome to the Machine Fri 07 May 2010, 12:57 am
incognito wrote:
"The volume you see during the day right now.. is FICTITIOUS... It's NOT REAL.. It's done by what they call high-frequency traders. These are machines. The biggest machine out there wins the game nowadays. And these people deal in subseconds. 50 milliseconds is a huge amount of time. Any over that and you are a dinosaur... What they do all day long is basically buy and sell and they try and collect liquidity rebates from the exchanges who are basically in partnership with them. They trade for no apparent fundamental reason...
"The trick to the market here is that the high-frequency guy does not add liquidity, he adds VOLUME. And there is a big difference between liquidity and volume. [If] volume is 12 billion shares, who cares? If a news event occurs, and there is no more liquidity anymore, the trapdoor opens and no one is there to buy... I have a feeling one day the door is going to close. Everyone is going to be running for the exits. There is going to be a major move in the markets and everyone is going to wonder "What happened?" What did that crazy guy on Bloomberg Television say that day about high frequency traders? There is a problem structurally in the equity markets that nobody wants to talk about. There is intervention, there's manipulation going on."
Some random thoughts...
I wonder if this narrative is even accurate. Do traders really design systems for speed where the winners beat out the loser in micro-seconds? Or, is this just a contrived narrative, to get the public to lose confidence in the existing market? I think it could be the latter because they want the public to lose even more confidence in the markets.
They're obvious setting us up for another crash, and this could be a contrived, or perhaps not, narrative that will provide the explanation for said crash. But we know, the crash is designed and planned.
I wonder if today was some sort of Beta test for a market crash, to see how independent, and perhaps institutional, traders would respond.
Overall, what continues to be reinforced is this effort to crash ALL that is our current system, so the "system upgrade" can be installed and welcomed by the public. My guess, is the system upgrade is already in-place and operational, and all this noise is just to convince the public to accept the replacement of the old with the new.
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