“Goldman’s $4 Billion High Frequency Trading Wildcard” by zerohedge

By Daniel at 19 July, 2009, 11:22 pm

CIT represents small business — the affluent underclass that the Obama White House plans to suck dry through higher taxes, Cap and Trade, and it healthcare sham.

Goldman Sachs represents the super-rich oligarchy supported by the ruling class in Washington. That’s why Goldman’s competitors, Lehman Bros and Bear Stearns, were allowed to go belly up. Same with CIT. But AIG was bailed out ($12.6 billion of AIG bailout went directly to Goldman) because the Goldman super-rich demanded it! The Goldman goons are placed strategically throughout all the power positions in key positions in government.

A few months back, a Goldman recruiter contacted me about working for them. She told me that Goldman won’t even take a client unless they have a net worth of at least $25 million! Goldman was also the largest donor to the Obama campaign. This company’s name should be changed to Goldvernment Sucks America Dry! There is no way this White House will do anything to upset the golden apple cart!

Goldman Sachs represents 50-60% of ALL trading volume in all financial markets in the U.S., and 20% world-wide, using high frequency trading on servers colocated just feet from the exchanges. Here is an article about this:

“A recent story in Advanced Trading goes after some of the minutae of High Frequency Trading and provides a glimpse of the total value that HFT may provide to behemoth PT powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs. The article presents a very valuable perspective on just why HFT is so critical these days, especially when cash traders go for 6 hour Starbucks breaks between 10 am and 3:30 pm: “high frequency trading firms, which represent approximately 2% of the 20,000 or so trading firms operating in the US markets today, account for 73% of all US equity trading volume. These companies include proprietary trading desks for a small number of major investment banks, less than 100 of the most sophisticated hedge funds and hundreds of the most secretive prop shops, all of which operate with one thing in mind—capture profit opportunities by being smarter and faster than the closest competition.” And as the market keeps going up day in and day out, regardless of the deteriorating economic conditions, it is just these HFT’s that determine the overall market direction, usually without fundamental or technical reason. And based on a few lines of code, retail investors get suckered into a rising market that has nothing to do with green shoots or some Chinese firms buying a few hundred extra Intel servers: HFTs are merely perpetuating the same ponzi market mythology last seen in the Madoff case, but on a massively larger scale. When it all blows up, the question is whether the SEC will go after the perpetrators of this pyramid with the same zeal that it pursued Madoff himself. We think not….”

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/goldmans-4-billion-high-frequency-trading-wildcard