Iconoclast421

HFT: The High Frequency Trading Scam

Rather than stop the HFT, there is every reason to assume that over the next few years it could increase by a factor of ten. Will it matter that eventually 99.9999% of all trading will be this sort of manipulation? Nope. There is no law.

The manipulation and criminality has only just begun. It's funny that you mention the mafia and protection money. Sooner or later, the criminality will become as open as the mafia running a protection racket. It happened in Germany in the 1930s. People will and have learned to turn a blind eye to it.

Even in today's world where it is so easy to capture crime and corruption on video, it still does not matter. Already we are seeing multiple instances where blatant crimes are commited right on the camera, with the perp in full view and fully identified, and yet the victim receives nothing in the way of justice. The closest to justice he will see is having his video pulled off of youtube!