Showing posts with label Computer Trading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Trading. Show all posts

10 June 2011

The E-Trade Baby Loses It All

01 July 2010

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan: Need For An Alternative Investment Structure Instead of the Corrupt Stock Market

"Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time," Ratigan said.

"The stock market at this point, which used to be a reflection of the future value of actual businesses in this country, has been turned by our government and our banks into little more than a paper shredding facility [about which] we can make up reasons why it goes up and down, but when the computers at the banks are controlling the action, most everything else is kind of silly."

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