this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
4 points (66.7% liked)

Stocks

820 readers
1 users here now

A community for discussing stocks.

Rules:

  1. No bigotry: Including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No NSFW content.
  4. No Ads / Spamming.
  5. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘stupid’ questions. The world won’t be made better or worse by snarky comments schooling naive newcomers on Lemmy.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
4
Should FTC limit how much of a single stock an entity like Berkshire can sell in a specific timeframe? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Not talking about touching the little guys. Talking about something like limiting sales or buys to $1M per day to curb the leverage these big corps have on the market.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ll look up HFTs. U got more context?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

High frequency trading. It's trading measured in milliseconds (or less, nanoseconds now matter) where they are just skimming off everyone else.

It's not accessible to anyone else except a extremely well financed and entrenched few.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Ah yeah you’re always gonna be behind. It’s a losing game, especially options.