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| Subject: Stock Volatility is Computer Generated Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:37 pm | |
| The actual productive economy has very little in common with the erratic and substantial movement in equity pricing on the major exchanges. The conditions for conducting commerce have not appreciably changed in the last days to warrant a numerical drop of historic proportions. For the working class and the consumer market, the price of items did not see a major drop or rise in value in this latest turmoil. Lost in the confusion is that the professional speculators won't be playing a game of chance, they will execute their financial triggers based upon mathematical algorithms implemented at lightning speed by super computers. The days of the "specialists" making a market has been dead for years.
There is no such tangibility as an investment when the underlying security is based upon a third party financial instrument. This is a primary reason why the real economy must be reflected upon the actual transactions of buying and selling.
Exchange-traded funds (ETF) have been the rage for many years. The report, Will ETFs cause the next market crash?, hedges on their answer.
[size=16]Claim 1: ETFs are blindly pushing up stock prices[/size]
[size=16]http://batr.org/merchantry/020718.html [/size] _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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