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Re:Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second by fleitz on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:26AM (#3760154)
Retail 'investors' shouldn't have any issue with BATS if anything BATS provides liquidity, however retail 'traders' stand no chance because the computer is far better at technical analysis and pattern matching than the average trader. Retail traders never really stood a chance against institutions because retail trades the market rather than creating it like institutions do.

eg. A retailer can't execute a short squeeze but an institution can.

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Re:Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second by ahi on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @09:58AM (#3761498)
No one needs 29,000 trades a second liquidity. HFT serves no market making function. It is a drag on market operations and confidence.
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Re:Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second by cube13 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @12:07PM (#3762266)
No trader is doing 29,000 trades a second.

BATS is an exchange like NASDAQ. They're facilitating and executing trades for their clients. NASDAQ handled 70k per second in 2008, and could handle almost 4 times that load(http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0112/056.html).

HFT has nothing to do with this.

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