Re:SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrate...
by usefulcat on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @03:41PM
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> Most HFT strategies are not only blatantly dishonest but also clearly illegal.
What specific strategies are you referring to? Genuinely curious.
Re:SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrate...
by chronic74939 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @08:55AM
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> > Most HFT strategies are not only blatantly dishonest but also clearly illegal.
> What specific strategies are you referring to? Genuinely curious.
Any strategy that outperforms his 10-20% passive index fund VTI/QQQ ETF.
HFT is pulling 50-100% annual returns for decades.
HFT is capacity constrained, yes. But anyone would take 100% return every year on “only” $100 million on deployed capital.
Re:SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrate...
by infecto on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:19AM
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Where is the citation for this 100% HFT? Lots of numbers floating around but the only time I have seen those types of numbers are for short lived periods.
My issue as always with these numbers is that back in the day you had some bloke on the floor vacuuming up this wide spreads and today we have some of the smallest spreads in history. It has a cost but that cost is generally less than what you were paying before.
A fair market could be huge, but the trick is keeping it fair. It used to be more fair, and we used to have a healthier economy because of it.
It’s not like most of the unfairness in the current market couldn’t be dealt with, probably with laws already on the books. Most HFT strategies are not only blatantly dishonest but also clearly illegal. The government looks the other way though, because corruption.