By Doug Hornig, Casey Research
High-frequency traders (HFT) have no interest in any company whose stock they're trading.
They don't care about its earnings, what sector it's in, nor who's on the board of directors.
They neither know nor care how it fares in technical analysis, and they don't give a damn about its long-term prospects.
Likely as not, they don't even know its name. Continue reading "Are High Frequency Traders Rigging the Stock Market?"
Global rally potential is all about arresting the deflation case for a counter trend expression of bullishness. Some of my inflationist friends will disagree, but I believe that the deflationary condition is the dominant backdrop (periodically fought by inflationary policy making) and that the admittedly valueless USD can see future upside.
There will be plenty more to write on this as the herds hiding in USD begin to come out and play with the asset market bulls. Because as usual, we’ll begin highlighting what might come next well ahead of time. Continue reading "Quick Take on USD"
Knight Securities loss of $440 million this week was attributed to a "glitch" in a new trading software release. Rumor has it that a disgruntled computer took over, hid or disabled the abort button, and sent out massive market orders causing the firm to lose $10 million per minute for almost 44 minutes, putting Knight into almost instant insolvency. The term "glitch" according to Webster's dictionary, is deemed to be "a minor or temporary setback", not a potential death blow. This categorization of Wall Street incompetence is reminiscent of the recent JPM trading loss of what is now over 7 billion as it was initially referred to as "Tempest in a Teapot" by Jamie Dimon, one of the worlds most highly regarded CEO's. Continue reading "2012, A Trading Odyssey"
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Gold Market for the Week of August 6
If ever there were a week for traders to be excited about a directional move in global markets it should have come last week. Leading up to last week's news, markets finished strong in anticipation of favorable news from multiple central banks, most importantly the United States and the ECB. Mario Draghi released a statement suggesting he would take any and all measures necessary to protect the Euro, and his statements were later Continue reading "Chart of the Week"
Elliott Wave International has long observed that external events do not alter the dominant trend of financial markets -- not even major events like wars, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, political assassinations or any other news that makes headlines.
Now, it is true that news can sometimes have a near-term effect on market prices. Continue reading "The Surge Higher in U.S. Markets: "The Stage is Being Set""
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