Not talking about touching the little guys. Talking about something like limiting sales or buys to $1M per day to curb the leverage these big corps have on the market.

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    3 months ago

    Limiting buys would stymie hostile takeovers. Actually, yeah, that wouldn’t be a terrible idea. Anyone who wins big because they were able to “strike while the iron’s hot” is likely taking significant advantage of their position, and all of their profits come at the expense of people left holding the bag.

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    No, they don’t have as much leverage as you think they might and trying to regulate like this would cause all kinds of systemic issues that could cause far more economic damage then good. There is already halt protections to prohibit dumping where there is not enough interested buyers to handle a selloff for instance.

    This would be about restricting institutional liquidity which is just overall a bad idea for the health of the market and retail investors as a whole.

    You want to look to fix something, look at fixing HFTs first. They are cancer that affects every market participant.

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        High frequency trading. It’s trading measured in milliseconds (or less, nanoseconds now matter) where they are just skimming off everyone else.

        It’s not accessible to anyone else except a extremely well financed and entrenched few.

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          3 months ago

          Ah yeah you’re always gonna be behind. It’s a losing game, especially options.

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      3 months ago

      Seems like we should only allow these big firms to trade in Dark Pools

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      3 months ago

      Yeah it’s nice when you have money or if you’re not invested at the time.