If you weren’t convinced before, you should be now. It’s always been known that institutional firms have faster connections and quicker execution than retail investors, giving them a decided advantage when trading market-moving economic news. But now, with revelations the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment report, and other economic data, gets sold to some investors early, what can a retail investor do? “Retail investors who think they can be good short-term traders are kidding themselves,” said Cromwell Coulson, president and CEO of OTC Markets Group Inc. “They should consider economic reports as part of ... (full story)