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To: expat_panama
I agree expat. And I take a similar approach to my investing. I am not a day trader, and use the market to make sound investments that grow, not to throw the dice and make quick profits. I macroscale my strategy looking at months and years versus hours and days. I hate paying brokerage fees, except when I have to.

My "house" comments come from the process that large institutions have the ability to make those millsecond trigger calls where they can invest, and profit on the smaller player's slower moves. Huge moves skimming pennies a trade can add up pretty big. Fair?., probably not, but it is probably more of a competitive advantage (scale and technology) versus the claim of rigging.

Again since I don't I don't day trade, this doesn't bother me that much. 8 transactions a month is a pretty busy one for me.

75 posted on 04/03/2014 5:36:37 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: catfish1957
8 transactions a month

Something like my speed; for me its easier to pick a good company for holding a few weeks when so much new data comes out weekly.  iirc they call us 'swing traders'.  There are folks that can make money holding for a few hours at a time but I'm not one of them.

77 posted on 04/03/2014 6:17:20 AM PDT by expat_panama (Arguing with those who have renounced reason is like giving medicine to the dead. --Thomas Paine)
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