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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Stock Type |
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| Hend.Fledge.Tst | HFT | London | Ordinary Share |
| Price Change | Price Change % | Share Price | Last Trade
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| 0.00 | 0.00% | 460.00 | 00:00:00 |
| Open Price | Low Price | High Price | Close Price | Previous Close |
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| 460.00 | 460.00 |
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Posted at 30/8/2012 13:51 by squirrel888 Praipus,I have been rather in the Velvetide camp where trading used to be quite enjoyable but that was over a decade ago now. I have made investments since the 2008 crash and most came good but aside from the odd one I did not venture back in. I may well have been very badly burned by my PMK investment - time still ticks for that one but I doubt very much that shorters are in the same position as me today - they should have profited handsomely from that disaster. However it could turn a corner. I've dabbled with FTSE100 companies but again I refuse to stay in very long (more than a year or so) because of the macro-economics. If there's a divi paid then it's a bonus on top of any profits but it certainly hasn't changed my life at all. Now I realise it's a mugs game - trading that is. Maybe one or two trades every couple of months now and I never re-invest - usually sit on the sidelines and wait. I would say that once in a while every PI can get lucky - really lucky and get a multi-bag rise but one must ask oneself if it's a real valuation ever? I am now actually favouring the work ethic once again - I've worked since I was 13yrs old (I've had a couple of years off in my working life-time) and I am now back in the throws of working and actually enjoying it. Trading is not something I shall risk the majority of my cash on right now. The markets aren't free and far from fair. Fundamentals mean nothing. THIS investor is now ultra-cautious. My cash may get devalued over time but I do wonder whether it might be at a slower pace than watching my portfolio get diseminated and be totally helpless about it - whether its the fault of computers or the lack of regulation. I know I can't win. |
Posted at 28/8/2012 09:24 by velvetide The aspect of hft which is being overlooked is that I as a private would read the signals from the charts to verify my reasoning to buy or sell a share.As the short to medium term charts are now merely a reflection of computer generated patterns, probability tricks, etc, there is now no verifying information available. This verification is of course necessary due to the deficit of information a private investor has over the city. A private investor's purchase against the trend is rarely a winning trade. Hence the private investor is gradually being driven away from short and medium terms trading and probably therefore away from trading all together (it has been drummed into us that buy and hold is dead - which is probably true for a majority of investments. That is the case for me, I will now probably select a handful of attractive long term opportunities to invest in and check them once a year. Last year I probably made 10 to 20 trades every day, now I don't trade at all. One of the reasons I initially stopped was because I was not able to easily get sell quotes into upward spikes. This was on top of an increasing difficulty of getting any quote at all as the hft information flood into my level 2 was preventing me getting quotes from my market maker (my broadband is very fast) - often it would take a minute or longer to get a uk buy or sell quote. A bit of a paradox considering the arguments put in favour of hft - instead - floods of liquidity preventing trading at all...or perhaps only allowing me to trade when it suits them? Only being allowed to trade selectively against a chaotic backdrop is not for the rational. So its goodbye from me, rather sadly, I did enjoy it a lot once. |
Posted at 28/1/2011 08:10 by snowyflake Praipus - Tried to access this very worthwhile site by using HFT epic code to no avail. Can you please advise on a simple route. |
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