Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Is the U.S. stock market rigged?
CBS News ^ | March 30, 2014 | Steve Kroft

Posted on 03/31/2014 12:26:58 PM PDT by C19fan

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: exchanges; stocks; wall
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-52 next last
If you a small fish actively trading you will be crushed by the big boys. I knew about this manipulation listening to the Coffee&Markets podcast at Redstate. One of the regulars who works in the intersection of IT and finance commented there is no place for the small retail investor on Wall Street anymore because of stuff like this.
1 posted on 03/31/2014 12:26:58 PM PDT by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Saw them talking about this on FOX this morning too.

The consensus was yes but tough noogies.


2 posted on 03/31/2014 12:29:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Is the pope catholic?


3 posted on 03/31/2014 12:30:16 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Duh.


4 posted on 03/31/2014 12:33:27 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
None of the info about HFT is new, been known publicly for several years, just another way to scam the little fish. Milli- and micro-second trades are entered and pulled (for their manipulation effect) before the little guy's trade can get executed. In fact, even before a big non-HFT trade can be executed.

All this is no where near as important as the central bank bubble, though.

5 posted on 03/31/2014 12:35:04 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

From a long lost Day Trader....”The Masses Lose their A**es”

NYSE: A well developed con job


6 posted on 03/31/2014 12:35:41 PM PDT by Regulator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

That’s kinda the whole base philosophy of stocks.

Manipulation, timing, luck, and even a little actual reality for show.


7 posted on 03/31/2014 12:36:15 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Regulator

My chances would be better at a casino.


8 posted on 03/31/2014 12:38:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

There is a distinction between small stock investors who buy and hold for long term gains, and small traders, who aim to make many small, quick gains and must compete with the market distorting manipulations of large traders. Cautious small investors can do well, sometimes remarkably well.


9 posted on 03/31/2014 12:41:26 PM PDT by Rockingham
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

I don’t think it’s really rigged. The HFT traders do make profits. In effect, they skim a bit, and I think the practical effect of this is to widen the bid-ask spread a bit. The market is still a lot more fair than 30 or 40 years ago when there was a mandatory bid-ask spread quoted in fractions of a dollar, and the brokers pocketed the difference. Now, the brokers and market makers are dealing in penny spreads... and yeah, the HFT guys pick up some... but regular investors are a lot better off than they used to be.


10 posted on 03/31/2014 12:45:09 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Don’t forget about the stimulas money that banks get for negligible interest rates to use for free in the stock market to make billions . When it all comes crashing down it won’t be pretty.


11 posted on 03/31/2014 12:50:11 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Long term buy and hold with dollar cost averaging has left me with more net worth than if I had put the money in the bank or CDs all these years.

Yes, the past 13 years have been pretty miserable as a buy and holder, but so have banks and CDs.

And yes, the market is rigged, which is where the big profits are. It is there for the big corporate guys to rob the small investor, like in 2008-2009, when so many small investors sold short, pulling out their money when the market was way down.

People that stayed all in when the market was down came out fine. In my case, I got all out at around the peak and stayed out, so I am fine too.

But yes, the market is rigged and plenty of small investors get greedy too late to make good profits and scare too easily after big sell offs. They are basically buying high and selling low and transfer their money to the big corporate guys.


12 posted on 03/31/2014 12:53:24 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pearls Before Swine
It only takes a month of watching the last two hours of daily trading in the US. If that doesn’t convince you it is rigged them I have a bridge to sell you.
13 posted on 03/31/2014 12:54:07 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: mad_as_he$$
It only takes a month of watching the last two hours of daily trading in the US. If that doesn’t convince you it is rigged them I have a bridge to sell you

How so? If it trends up... or down... in a predictable manner... you can make a fortune anticipating it. I don't believe you can, though.

14 posted on 03/31/2014 12:56:06 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
Is the U.S. stock market rigged?

Can there be any doubt ?????????????????

15 posted on 03/31/2014 12:57:16 PM PDT by PraiseTheLord (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, thousands of guillotines, stacks of coffins ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Yes.


16 posted on 03/31/2014 12:58:16 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
I worked on stock monitoring systems and Fidelity and had to follow transactions during the day. I noticed that hours or a day before major announcements many issues had a coincidental blip.

Yeah it's wired for some. Just look at Congressmen's net worth before and after they leave DC.

17 posted on 03/31/2014 12:59:03 PM PDT by AU72
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pearls Before Swine

Much more fair then when Joe Kennedy made a fortune kitting stocks.


18 posted on 03/31/2014 1:02:10 PM PDT by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
Yet U.S. stock ownership is at a record low

Where do you think our trade deficit dollars end up? Our government penalizes the heck out of any foreign entity wishing to invest in a US business start up or real estate. Yet that same foreign entity can purchase stock online without being hit with all the regulation.

When you put Goldman Sachs in charge of our monetary system, you can expect them to rig the game in their favor.

19 posted on 03/31/2014 1:02:50 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

The HFTs function as toll booths. They do their best to get a little bit out of each trade by front running it. Could be a nickle collected over billions of trades a year.

Front running means their computer program has ways of anticipating a trade. So the HFTs buy that stock and sell it to you for a few pennies more than you would have paid otherwise. This takes place in a fraction of a second.
Do this a millions of times a day and you are rich


20 posted on 03/31/2014 1:03:00 PM PDT by dennisw (Lenovo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-52 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson