We are far better than those reckless idiots, we are almost saints.
After watching that movie, pay for the Audible book called Flash Crash from Liam Vaughan. Here we learn how a bloke trading from a small bedroom in a flat in a London neighborhood who was trading E Mini S&P Future contracts got blamed for destroying the US stock markets on that bad day in 2010. It tells a great story how by spoofing, one can collapse world markets by just using a simple Algo that places huge limit orders 5 ticks above market price. This is important because traders like you and me can watch the limit orders on the books now, tonight or whenever we decide to look - and can predict Future price.
We can guess the future 5 seconds ahead of time quite accurately by just watching the tape.
Better than TA
Better than Sex
Trading thin liquidity at the boundary of the charts
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