Allegedly HFT firms are providing a benefit by cutting out the middleman (trading floor brokers), adding liquidity to the market and narrowing bid/ask spreads. Allegedly. The origin story for HFT is … (View Post)
Yeah and this reminds me about one of my other bad trades this year where I bet against junk bonds by taking out puts on HYG. The FED ended up injecting over $1B into Bond ETFs. Anyways I got to watc… (View Post)
When buying the dip earlier this year I decided to get cute and hedge with some puts on the Russell. Was only a few thousand dollars but it went down the drain in a matter of weeks so felt like I jus… (View Post)