todays comment on hft and asx trading

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    From Market Ticker on HFT:

    "These systems do not add liquidity - they add volume in an incestuous relationship with the exchanges which, of course, are not paid on liquidity - they are paid by the share, that is, by volume, as is your local retail broker."

    http://market-ticker.org/

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    From the Business Spectator on ASIC regulation:

    "That [ASX] profits are not just reliant on broker activity, but the integrity of that activity"

    Oh, so you can have order stacking with integrity? Obviously I just have the wrong approach!.

    "Assuming ASIC gets the right people, there will still be areas where a discretion has to be used outside the parameters of black-letter law, which is where ASIC operates,"

    Uh Oh! Sounds like the institutions will have a separate set of rules again! I am sure the lobbying to corrupt any new system has already begun.

    http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Conflict-of-interest-goes-with-ASX-powers-pd20090825-V8KFZ?OpenDocument

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    From Zero Hedge: the Kaufman letter to the SEC on dodgy insto trading:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/full-kaufman-letter-mary-schapiro

 
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