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To: expat_panama
From one of your links:
Put simply, the quants have ruined our markets by exaggerating short-term price moves...
This seems true.
High-volume program trades for a few pennies/share up or down do distort the markets.
Many of these moves are the result of a FED member or other notable saying the right (or wrong) thing.
Or because some reported value came in "higher (or lower) than expected."

I'm just a dumb guy reading the internet but it's obvious that these days the fundamentals of a given stock, industry or commodity are farther down the list of value criteria than they used to be.

23 posted on 09/15/2016 7:22:16 AM PDT by citizen (Sanctuary cities: Illegals move in for free stuff, residents move out b/c they can't pay the taxes.)
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To: citizen
quants have ruined our markets by exaggerating short-term price moves...
This seems true.

While that sure sounds good, for months now we've simply not had any "exaggerating short-term price moves".

 

 imho the only reason he can get away w/ saying that there was is becuase most readers just love to blame workers in the finance sector for all kinds of problems --real and imagined.

30 posted on 09/15/2016 12:22:23 PM PDT by expat_panama
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