By: Lyle
The question is how many folks pay commissions anyway? A lot of discount brokerages offer some number of trades, and low rates beyond that (even some large formerly full service operations have done...
View ArticleBy: VennData
Will these trends continue? Will people pay more to under perform the indices? If the answer is yes, than the answer to the above is no. Allocate your assets in fixed amounts to index funds, with a...
View ArticleBy: carchamp1
Guessing at least some of this declining volume trend is due to stocks more than doubling since the crisis. If we account for only being able to buy half the shares we could 4 years ago with the same...
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[...] NYSE Volume chart deceptively informative Consider what the overall falling volume trend [...]
View ArticleBy: Hammer of Thor
The most likely reason is that the 2007-2011 period had higher than normal trading volumes and they’ve just been reverting back to the mean.
View ArticleBy: Jack Damn
HFT Algos may spoof millions of phony bids, but they are having a harder time getting executed. I agree with that, but I disagree with the other five reasons mentioned. HFT “quote stuffing” is still a...
View ArticleBy: eroldictat
If true, all of these are very positive events. High time IMO that financial services was revealed as the emperor with no clothes in terms of the value it adds to an economy. HFT is a joke, commissions...
View ArticleBy: CharlesII
Um. How about this one: Volumes are getting back to what they were before the crisis
View ArticleBy: McMike
Markets rise as main street and mom & pop retreat and overall volume declines? QE ++ flows to state and local govs and into under-funded pension funds, indirectly allowing the fed to prop up...
View ArticleBy: cheese
so, can I nominate this chart @ econjobrumors.com as exhibit A for the fallacy that HFT increases liquidity?
View ArticleBy: Moopheus
” The financial services industry is shrinking; • Commissions are falling • Stock picking is being replaced with ETFs; • Psychology is negative, as Main St is not participating and Mom & Pop have...
View ArticleBy: constantnormal
How are dark pools factored into this, as influences on supply/demand, and does anyone have a clue as to (approximately) how big dark pool volume is relative to NYSE volume? It may be that most of our...
View ArticleBy: Frilton Miedman
constantnormal Says: December 18th, 2012 at 9:38 am ” It may be that most of our transparent public stock trading metrics are meaningless. ” ~~~ Worth repeating.
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