Posted on 03/31/2014 8:56:49 PM PDT by Ray76
This month marks the fifth anniversary of the current bull market on Wall Street, making it one of the longest and strongest in history. Yet U.S. stock ownership is at a record low and less than half of Americans trust banks and financial services. And in the last two weeks, the New York attorney general and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in Washington have both launched investigations into high-frequency computerized stock trading that now controls more than half the market.
The probes were announced just ahead of a much anticipated book on the subject by best-selling author Michael Lewis called "Flash Boys."
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Where does everyone think that QE money is going?
Some brokerage houses charge you extra for “Limit” orders.
If so, shop around, get a new broker.
Money doesn't just evaporate into thin air. The last market crash separated investors of hundreds of billions of hard earned dollars.
They'll get theirs in the end.
If I want into a stock, I believe it will rise significantly. That being the case, I don’t care about pennies.
I was not even thinking in those terms. I was thinking of the time, effort and opportunity costs one takes to decide to place an order.
If you feel the stock market may be rigged, bail out entirely.
Focus your time and effort on real estate, or antique furniture, or start your own business.
But it does disappear into cyberspace. I had a crazy thought, since coincidence is rarely just that:
This problem seems to coincide with the emergence of the bitcoin. Could this be the elusive source of bitcoin value?
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