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Monsanto using MPAA and RIAA tactics (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Tue Apr 08, '14 06:24 PM (#46700087)

Monsanto and Cargil do some really shitty things with their IP when it comes to their seeds - like suing farmers for having Monsanto's crops growing in their fields when they weren't purchased and suing seed washers for alleged violations of IP.

A simple transaction cost of maybe 1cent per share wouldn't affect a normal buyer at all,

Oh, yes it would. Say I'm a small trader with a small account of $10,000. No margin. I'm trading stocks under $2.00, and I buy 1000-2000 shares at a time (that's $2000-$4000 per position). I get charged $8 to buy or sell, so that's $16 in fees for one round-trip (buy and sell) trade.

Adding a $0.01 fee PER SHARE (not per transaction) adds in a $10 (1000x0.01) to $20 (2000x0.01) fee, so that's $20-$40 in extra fees per trade, plus the $16 per trade = $36-$56 just for ONE round-trip trade.

With fees like that, I might as well telephone in each trade to a broker and hand them the fees, and give up on individual trading altogether. I'd have to make that up in higher and higher profit for every trade that I make. Sometimes I'm only making $50 gross on a trade, and $34 net profit after the broker fees. That's not a lot.

There isn't any way for an HFT company to see an order "on its way" to an exchange.

Leaked info? No, try sold your information, and it's not insider trading. It's called Payment for order flow where brokers sell your intent to buy or sell to HFT companies. Before the trade takes place.

Quote from WSJ posting on 4/6/2014: "Shares of E*Trade Financial Corp. ETFC +0.05% , Charles Schwab Corp. SCHW +0.27% and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. AMTD +0.26% tumbled last week amid concerns that regulators would ban a practice that allows brokerages to collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue by selling orders to middlemen who use high-frequency strategies to trade with the brokers' customers. The practice, called payment for order flow, has gained more attention since the release of "Flash Boys," a book by Michael Lewis that argues the markets are "rigged" to benefit high-frequency traders, allegations that are stirring up long-running questions about the fairness of markets."

That would have to be a pretty big Oreo. And have special attachments or plug-ins.

Sounds like you should move to Colorado or Washington state, and take up on the now-legal pastime of vaporizing the local herb. That will definitely increase your appetite.

based on...what metric?

Sorry, we don't use the Metric System here in the U.S.

If you like that BOOM, then I think you'd enjoy this picture: What is a Bastard?, too.

Large trucks, heavy equipment, aircraft, ships aren't likely EVER to be electric.

Most modern freight trains ARE electric; hybrid, to be exact. They use diesel generators to power the electric motors that move the wheels.

...flight dwarfs?

Does their dimunitive size make them immune to the radiation?

You pay for your DVDs and have the audacity to want to watch them too?

No, with Audacity, you can only listen to them.

I heard the same "joke", except with baby diapers.

high-performance brake pads that are loaded with known carcinogens

You mean like the Raybestos company that doesn't--heh-heh--sell their asbestos brake pads over the counter anymore?

An SHA-512 hash of my luggage combination?

That would be SHA512(12345), right?

Lumpy, this is the same thing that the LaBrea honeypot did, in a TCP/IP manner, to automated scanners of our university network. We chuckled that some scanners held on for DAYS, essentially playing the "Uhh, are you still there?" "Sure--just a second, I'll be right back." game over and over on every possible TCP/IP port on a machine. It kept them busy so they wouldn't be scanning someone else. And, the reporting (for abuse lists, admins and sharing the blacklists) was automatic! It was named after the LaBrea tar pits in Los Angeles California.