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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (35719)	9/16/2010 4:25:09 PM
From: axial	Respond to of 46821

WLD that's a common argument, advanced principally by those winning from the practice. Regulators have been sufficiently dumbstruck, and exchanges enamored of profit that beyond curtailment of flash trading, little has changed. As discussed upstream, ETFs and HFT go hand-in-hand. There certainly is a controversy: highfrequencytradingreview.com --- Solving the HFT Dilemma oemcells.com --- Message 25818775 Message 26162310 Message 26634980 Message 26724807 Message 26738637 Message 26738637 Message 26738673 Message 26819309 --- It would be interesting to see how anemic trading really is these days, in the absence of HFT. Jim

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (35719)	9/17/2010 1:46:13 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 46821

My experience in the 1980s was being robbed by brokers who could fiddle the trades to their advantage. Now, with million mile a minute computers battling each other to nab the little gaps, there is not much left on the table for them. Even into the 1990s, there was very slow and very limited access to information on what markets were doing. Now, information around the world is available at my fingertips. I'll go through the posts and see if there's something I'm missing that is worrying about the million mile a minute computers. Mqurice