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Re:Have the record number of investors in the stock market l... by ruminasean on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:30AM (#23202265)
I was under the impression that the vast majority of investing was automated, algorithm-based, no?
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Re:Have the record number of investors in the stock market l... by Traster on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:13AM (#23202760)
The total executed volume in the market are dominated by automated trading systems, capturing small differences in relative value between correlated products. They don't determine prices because they're not actually putting anything into the market in net, they have their capital and they're just redistributing it back and forth between a handful of different products capturing small amounts of edge from the real investors.
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Re:Have the record number of investors in the stock market l... by nabla9 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:55AM (#23202385)
No. You are thinking trading, not investing.
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Re:Have the record number of investors in the stock market l... by ruminasean on Sunday May 17, 2020 @09:25AM (#23211808)
Gotcha. Thanks.
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