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Comment: Re:Truth or dare... (Score 1) 617

by Xoron101 (#41609417) Attached to: Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week
- Find a better Brokerage account to use (without an account minimum you need to maintain)
- Don't waste you're time trading with $2500, put it in a high Interest savings account (ok, they don't pay much) and get back in when you have more funds to invest
- Put it all on Black on the roulette table (May as well if you're entire "investment" is in one stock).


by Xoron101 (#41608119) Attached to: Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week
It's more like someone wants to buy for 1.21 and someone wants to sell for 1.20, and the trade goes thought at 1.201, with the HFT skimming the 0.001 off the trade.

From the retail investor's view:
1. I want to buy 1,000 shares at 1.20.
2. The HFT is willing to sell them to me at a slightly higher cost
3. Trade gets executed at 1.201.
4. It costs me $1 for the trade to be executed quickly (against the HFT) rather than wait for the bid/ask spread to hit my trade (possibly costing me much more than $1 as the price trends up).

Now if I'm an institutional investor, whole different story when trading 1,000,000 shares.

Comment: Re:House Divided (Score 1) 304

by Xoron101 (#39541485) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up?
I use Cobian as well, backing up to a Truecrypt volume on an external hard drive. Every month or so, I swap my current backup drive with the drive I store off site (at my desk at work).

Being encrypted, I 'm not too worried if it walks at work, and the data isn't my most current copy. And if my primary backup and off site backup are both destroyed by the same event, then I've likely got MUCH BIGGER problems to worry about than my old tax returns and photos.

Comment: Re:If the quality is good enough. (Score 1) 1115

by Xoron101 (#32863374) Attached to: Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy?
I agree. Here is what I was thinking about (in the shower no less) this morning

How about the movie / music / tv industries provide a pay portal. A site where people would just go and pay "what they feel is appropriate" for a work?

So it would work something like this. Make the movie / song / tv show and distribute it via the normal avenues. Let the rest of us obtain, distribute, and pay what we feel is appropriate for the work. So lets say one was to download an NBC tv series that is from via P2P. It turns out quite a good show and one enjoys it. You might figure that's worth somewhere in $1-5 per episode.

Then one could browse over to www.nbc.com/PAYUS and pay the amount directly to NBC

The best thing is that 90% of this is already in place and NBC wouldn't need to invest in much new infrastructure to capture the revenue. The only missing bit is the website where one can pay for it. At least way, they would be capturing some of the lost revenue from "pirating".
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