Fizzgig

Again, the downvotes. Ganked means "[i]killed without any ability to stop being killed[/i]"

Aggressive control of HFT in the market is already on the books. Will it save the markets in the next phase?

Nope, but it's on the books. Hilarious that no-one here is connected enough to know this.

Be Seeing You.

Ganked - as in MMO style:

a) With Legal rules made against a majority of HFT processes (edited - pathways is probably a weird weft for HN)

b) With aggressive >contra algos employed to prevent certain HFT processes working

c) With bandwidth / latency stingrays employed

It's happening as we speak: a lot of players high up in the game are tired of HFTs.

Note: this is all rumor, and plausible deniability has been engaged.

You didn't hear it here, but it's gonna happen.

Exactly.

Europe announcing QE on the scale of the US markets lead directly the CHF moves.

My comment below that showed the media reporting of this is now "down-voted".

>>Out.

Funny. HN - the new Reddit.

That's insane.

No-one, and I mean [b]no-one[/b] thought the Peg would be kept.

The issue was how it was broken, nothing more.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8084cc9a-9cc5-11e4-971b-00144feabdc0...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11353686/QE-or-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11321355/Mario-...

Sorry to disagree, but:

#It's not a war

Yes, yes it is. Has been since the 70's. Anyone who tells you that currency markets aren't a function of State Power doesn't know what CB's do[1][2]. [The public side to this story is that the IMF wasn't informed prior to the move - work out why].

#Losses

Heavily leveraged FOREX companies (aka day babies) were taken to the cleaners, and some banks / funds who had positions lost out. Look at the # of positions that were closed out for the real story.

#Russia

It's interesting to note who holds what in Swiss Banks, and in CHF. Just a thought[3][4]

#HappyCamperFunTimes

Rumor has it that HFTs are going to be heavily ganked very soon, to the tune of 60% through-flow. You didn't hear that here.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2773265/Billionaire-who-b... [2]http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=S [3]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-ru... [4]http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/769344