sharemarket casino, page-53

I recently put the posting about 'sharemarket casino' or'robotic trading', just to see what response I would get. It was interesting.

Some agreed, that robotic, computer driven trading distorted the market and was a threat to genuine investment/trading. But that was a minority.

The majority of comments were ridicule, that any semblance of restrictive control might spoil their own adventures into the world of risk in seeking profit. Even the possibility that in the extreme, the whole 'pack of cards' that is the world of trading could crash either through rogue actions, accidental miscalculation, mis-programming of computers or deliberate acts of market terrorism. Many still harbour the naive belief that they can beat these robotic trades. Many still think back to an earlier time of personal, non-computer driven trading.

For me, I recognise their existence, try to be alert to their presence, and hope against hell that AOH is too small a target to attract the big guys. That if I stick it out that true value will prevail. So, I guess I also fall into the naive camp, and I ask 'what's the alternative'?

Would Darryl Kerrigan say 'Your dreaming'.