top | item 45525905

(no title)

pnut | 4 months ago

Why do we encourage microsecond scale HFT and tout its virtues, yet shut the market down for the majority of every day?

Why not go all the way and have markets running 24/7/365?

discuss

order

Ekaros|4 months ago

And while at that. Remove all circuit breakers. Let the markets be free. Whatever they do. Rocket up or down.

krapp|4 months ago

We tried laissez-faire unregulated markets in the 1920s and it didn't go well for anyone but the robber barons.

Maybe you expect to be one of them, but you'll probably just end up in the soup lines with everyone else.