High Frequency Trading runs wild

Yesterday between 14:25:27 and 14:27:20 (one minute and 53 seconds), 2.8 million orders were made for on particular ETF: XLF which is the ETF for U.S. financial companies (Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo etc etc). That equates to 23 trades per millisecond -- the idea here was to generate a small profit, in this case one penny, but if you do this kind of trade at the right point of the cycle -- it can be very profitable.

No wonder retail investors are quiting the market, so far we are up to more than USD 80 billion withdrawal from the market over 26 weeks. The game looks rigged, the market, despite its "optimism" still trades below 1220, and has not broken this level since September 2008, when it was heading down from its all time peak of 1550. You cannot make money in that market, and it appears to be rigged!

Ok so I lied...a little (revised)

When we began looking at farming in 2013/14 as something we both wanted to do as a "second career" we invested time and money to understand what sector of farming was profitable. A few things emerged, First, high-quality, source-proven, organic farm products consistently have much higher profit margins. Secondly, transformation accounted for nearly 80% of total profits, and production and distribution accounted for 20% of profits: Farmers and retailers have low profit margins and the middle bits make all the money. A profitable farm operation needs to be involved in the transformation of its produce. The low-hanging fruits: cheese and butter. Milk, generates a profit margin of 5% to 8%, depending on milk quality. Transformed into cheese and butter, and the profit margin rises to 40% (Taking into account all costs). Second: 20% of a steer carcass is ground beef quality. The price is low, because (a) a high percentage of the carcass, and (b)...

Spray painting Taylor Swift G650 aircraft (updated)

First, a bit of paint will not harm anyone. These climate activities are going to learn two things in the next few days: (1) Trespassing at an airport is a felony almost anywhere in the world. That means criminal prosecution. (2) removing paint from an aircraft is expensive. So these climate activists are about to find out the reach of the British criminal system and it will not be pleasant, the UK has very strict laws about that, I would be surprised if cleaning the aircraft of all the paint will cost less than $100,000. I am sure that when they planned (premeditation) this little show they had a very valid logic to doing this. Tonight, they are probably realizing the depth of their troubles. I understand that in the UK it's a minimum one-year jail sentence. Also, good luck travelling with a criminal trespass charge against you. I am relatively certain that the airline industry will ...

Janet Yellen from China supporter to Hawk...

There is rarely serious news in the world these days, it seems that most newspapers are filled with headlines and little else, and then Ms Yellen went to China. Secretary Yellen has long been known in the Biden administration as the voice of moderation when dealing with China, yet as her trip which concluded yesterday a hawk was born: She warned the Chinese against dumping goods in the United States. fighting words! The American administration is very concerned about the lack of Chinese domestic consumption. Even before the COVID-19 epidemic, there were already the beginning signs of a slowdown, automobile sales were off. China is facing domestic deflation (a clear sign of collapsing demand) China imports few consumer goods, they import raw materials and intermediary goods. It seems that the American administration is concerned that the Chinese administration will dump consumer goods abroad to keep its manufacturing machinery ...

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