I suppose that the US markets of today are quite efficient and effective.
The public may just not understand in 'what way' they are intended to be efficient.
And may the odds be always in your favour.
This is a very brief excerpt of a well written story from Wall Street On Parade.
You may read it in its entirety here.
Lawsuit: Chicago Futures Market Creates “Guaranteed Winners and Guaranteed Losers”
By Pam Martens
November 6, 2014
Last week three futures traders told a Federal court in Chicago that it’s not just the high frequency trading firms that are reaping a windfall but the exchanges who are engaged in a conspiracy with them to create guaranteed winners and guaranteed losers...
But what Judge Charles P. Kocoras has been hearing in this case for months are these hair-raising charges of 'clandestine contracts' between the futures exchanges and high frequency traders; that the exchange is giving high frequency traders early peeks at data before the rest of the market under a process known as the 'Latency Loophole'; and that potentially as much as 50 percent of the trades on the exchange are 'wash trades.'
