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All throughout my posts, I actually leave people with something to take away that they can learn from:
1. I warned people against IB and Timber Hill's prop trading practices. I suggested another brokerage. Someone PM'ed me and I also recommended another FCM. (And I don't clear with either of these 2 entities.)
2. I suggested ways to improve exchange architecture, and ways in which it can't improve from Nanex's suggestions. I even agreed with a few of Nanex's suggestions.
3. I told an inside story about 3 firms, so people understand the "latency arms race" better - that it actually boils down to a modeling advantage.
4. I showed details of our trading strategies.
5. I illustrated the positions of different trading participants and their relationships with "HFT": a $300B fund, the algorithmic trading desk at a broker-dealer, a retail brokerage firm, a prop trading firm etc. I explained how many of their trades represent innocent people like a young girl who just inherited a large number of stocks that was hard-earned.
6. I also shared data that I obtained from a thorough research methodology myself, rather than posting a PDF that was written by someone else, and data that was timestamped by ourselves.
What have you, or Nanex, demonstrated about your industry in this thread or done to benefit the readers of this thread? Actually, what kind of trading strategies do you two run anyway?
I'd like to remind everyone that civil discussion is welcome and encouraged, but let's remember futures.io (formerly BMT) is not "other forums" where it is normal to have a pissing contest or instigate childish or rude behavior. So just to make sure we aren't heading in that direction, please make sure you are not picking a fight or instigating an argument and instead let's keep it professional and helpful.