HFT Market Maker on Thursday's Showdown

BoyRacer · May 10, 2010, 5:40am

HFT MaerketMaker on Thursday’s Showdown -> itulip.com/forums/showthread … s-Showdown

HTF Tech Guy: NYSE is the biggest piece of shit on earth, they caused half the problems

me: From stopping the trades on certain stocks?

HTF Tech Guy: no, their electronic system is so shitty, and their dev staff is so shitty… it was taking them hours to tell us our order status, something that is usually instantaneous. how the fuck are people supposed to trade without knowing that, that’s why everyone bailed out. which is why some stocks “plummetted” fast. just nobody in the market to buy or sell so it appeared to be “one cent” or whatever. the same shit happened on friday too actually, they are just a piece of shit

HTF Tech Guy: well, the whole market was on edge is the real underlying cause honestly, if it was the day before xmas, this shit wouldn’t have happened. all the institutions have had their finger on the sell button for months hoping not to be the last guy out. of course, for our firm we don’t care about all that stuff, we just trade

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