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Presenting The "Rise Of The HFT Machine" - Visual Confirmation How SkyNet Broke The Stock Market On US Downgrade Day
Zero Hedge has not been focusing much on the topic of our broken equity markets recently because if by now, following over three years of coverage, someone is not aware just how fragmented, manipulated and largely broken the market truly is, they never will. Yet every now and then it worth reminding readers who may have stumbled on this blog recently, just how bad things are in graphic format. Our friends at Nanex, who are by far the best forensic analysts of everything that is busted with the US stock market, have completed a masterpiece analysis showing the churning (packet traffic) in the various fragmented US market venues, from the NYSE to the Nasdaq to BATS and so forth, on a daily basis beginning in January 2007 and continuing through today. While the "rise of the HFT machine" over the past 5 years, following the adoption of Reg NMS, will hardly be a surprise to most, what is stunning is the first animated confirmation of the market terminally breaking on August 5, 2011, the day the US was downgraded, an observation that first was made right here on Zero Hedge. Which begs the question: what really happened in the stock market on August 5, 2011 when the US was downgraded to AA+, when everything literally broke, who is intervening constantly in the stock market, and why are they doing so via various HFT intermediary mechanisms?
Note the insanity that begins on August 5, 2011:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64
the chart dances to salsa music.
i got toxic vaccines full of mercury and aluminum when i was a kid and drink flouridated water so i have massive adhd. can you post the short version for us special people?
This is an exceptional chart but it's a shame you can't "slow motion" it?
The song starts out slow, then the chorus picks up around April 2010. Gets intense again around April 2011, and Ozzy starts really ramblin around August 2011. Brain damage and all, he still can rock this house!!
I recommend sitting through the whole thing. It PROVES how broken and manipulated this Krugmanian sideshow of an economy really is. Fucking farce, actually. This pig is going down - hope it blows up all over Benocides' face.
Someone like BrotherJohn should make a YouTube from the gif.
"Investing in stock market today like having wife who screw you only for money."
Neoconfucius
http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/2971794/Investors/RBC-Takes-On-High-Frequency-Predators.html?ArticleId=2971794&LS=EMS610309
“What concerned us are HFT strategies like latency arbitrage, which is just about getting from point A to point B faster, sniffing out large institutional orders like ours and trying to get ahead of them,” Steiner says
THOR is part of a broader institutional backlash against certain hedge fund strategies.
The system has been in use for a year, and Steiner says it has greatly improved liquidity for RBC and its clients — allowing them to execute orders at the desired price.
Steiner says they had no quarrel with the majority of high frequency trading, which now accounts for 53 percent of the equities markets. That is up from 20 percent in 2005, albeit down from of peak of 60 percent in 2008. RBC itself uses some elements of high frequency trading.
Conclusions?
So what does packet volume mean?
data volume?
and to what does that translate considering that there are lower volumes in the exchanges?
does this mean that there are a lot of pre-transactions that are cancelled before being executed?
can someone translate without any adjectives what this means?
it means you cant track shit in dark pools..
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204777904576651111404462184.html
'Dark Pool' Settlement Shines Light on Potential Abuses
Just don't....sell....anything....
that gif is FriCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
This is a little off topic, but please indulge:
And not just for you guys that can do a couple differential equations:
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Bra-fucking-vo!!!
EPIC
i think i have the perfect background music for the gif;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT86MuOVZy8
Actually as it turns out, I do. :-)
/songs-for-SONGS/
ori
Or,
This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLvPNt2KsAU
Tyler will give you a guest post for this.....
Such a joke, 1/10th the size order of ten years ago,
goes 10times deeper in the market.
Yet the claim they provide liquidity.
You were right :) toe jacks
Watching this, with it's beating, pulsing, spiking and ebbing rhythym, building into a crescendo of frenetic activity, and then just as seemlessly slipping into a calm, relax, lobotomized state of a bizarre tranquility, coupled with knowing at least something about how brutally warped and broken all markets are now, thanks in large measure to the man they call The Bernank (& his lackeys in tow), it reminds me of the following quote, during one of best scenes (IMO), of the genuinely fantastic movie Gladiator -
Proximo:
But that was just a movie, empire lasts forever, and Rome wasn't built, nor did it die, in a day.
I hereby re-nickname The Bernank to BernanCommodus, henceforth to be remembered as he whoeth hath breaketh all markets.
Would it be BernanCommodus, he whoeth hath breaketh all markets
OR
BernanNero, he who hath fiddled with his nethers whilst all markets died?
I think your version gives him too much credit... the man is an imbecile.
The best line in the movie:
Oh, I know Iknow!!! It is the new virtual fireplace app. for smartphones! Now I just need to slap a big enough monitor over the heat sucking hole in my house and I can use it there too! And, it will sure cut down on all the work of wood fires, just need the sound loop to go with it though.
It means go long cisco, juniper and all fiber optic cable manufactures...
Eat the Rich!
They have been eating You! and Yours!! for GENERATIONS!!!
Hober Mallow
No adjectives?
Anything being sold is bought, then sold, then churned through market sectors in nanosecond buy/sell, put/call cycles.
How do you keep a top or a plate on a stick stay up? You keep it spinning.
How do you add texture to a meringue or ice cream? You whip in air.
Eat the Rich!
They have been eating You! and Yours!! for GENERATIONS!!!
Except that compared to the entire world population you are the rich and compared to historical humanity you enjoy a godlike existence.
EB,
Perfect recipe for GM, AMR -hell for the entire USA and most of the free world!
How do keep using 8% act sci assumptions in public pension funds?
How do keep giving away gold plated retirement packages to public employees?
How do you build product when 20% of the cost is paying people who are not even working?
Perfect analogies.
The information seems to show the rise of High Frequency Trading algorithms in play, thus proposing that the current stock trends are being propped up by hedge fund operations to provide liquidity. The spike in volume for August 2011, as things were downgraded implies a broken method without retail investor support. There's no investors, computer program trading between the major firms. Lots of people suspected such antics, but this is the first time information has been shown streaming visually to document the volume of the trading activity.
If I am interpreting the information incorrectly, correct me.
Nice luck out there... Global APO
This stuff scares the hell outta me.
I ne'er play games on a laptop till i am off from home (visiting family or something) and suddenly I even have no games to play. However, I invariably do carry around my portable computer thus this was a wonderful get on behalf of me. i do not play usually on my laptop, however this was an excellent investment for next time i am with a lappy however while not a console. jogos do mario
to me it just looks like other countries' sercurities became more attractive after our downgrade, and the market started considering and trading on them more.
I think there'll solely be an extra game left during this series! with wade taking part in this dangerous and also the celts particularly the massive price ticket wanting this sensible i cant see the warmth going any farther! jogos da barbie i wrote all regarding it here and the way to bet it therefore coem check it out! jogos da barbie
ahh, stop paying for shit and see how long your marriage last.
Im converting this to youtube... BRB with a link...
and then?
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and THENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN?
Sorry for the delay...I tried to slow it down and make sure the quality was worthwhile so the rendering and upload took forever.
http://youtu.be/EfHPjV1SpHk
I Love You Man!
Nope! I dont want your bud-light!
JPM Hater - The Youtube video you link to does NOT seem to go past early 2011. I was waiting for the fireworks and never got them. If you could do that, it would be a VERY useful exercise. Thanks!
Big Ching - spoken like a true newlywed. Anyone married to a woman more than 5 years really doesn't want to fuck her anymore -- and if they do - they are paying dearly one way or another.
"gunsmoke011"
You married the wrong one!!
Truth Had To Be Told
5 years? You're talking like a single guy. more like 6 months.
Eat the Rich!
They have been eating You! and Yours!! for GENERATIONS!!!
Wuv. twooe wuv.
Anyone married to a woman more than 5 years really doesn't want to fuck her anymore -- and if they do - they are paying dearly one way or another.
My condolences.
Lol? That's very nearly the most idiotic comment about marriage I've ever read. If I were you I'd quit extrapolating based on my personal experience(s).
You have to understand Big Ching. Big Ching always talks in double entendre, sometimes triple entendre. I once did a quadruple entendre but I got so confused I forgot what I was entredreding about.
You're living the slo-mo version -- it's the time compression that lets us visualize the change!
After all, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
if you have a mac,,,save gif to desktop then open in preview and it shows each 'day' as a single gif.
Life Extension Foundation (LEF) Protocol for the H-e-e-v-y mentals. Chlorella, Vit C, and other stuff.
Bath in lots of 325 mesh bentonite clay (0.5 pound to start do not exceed 2. pound and handful of epsom salts (drink assload of water.) sit 1/2 hour lay 1/2 hour. To start. Hot water as hot as you can stand, don't hurt yourself but the point is to sweat.)
LEF also has a listing of out-patient "cool" physicians who wiill chelate that crap for you.
As far as the Fluoride goes.
Move!
Do your best. :)
I was abjectly poisoned in 2005 with Mercury after extraction of Amalgam fillings. Very bad news. Very!
The speed is actually what highsights the message. See the forest not the trees. The frequencies and "spikes" in the data absolutely jump post August 5th. The information is in the "jumpiness".
Does this give an indication of wobble? Might want to slow this down and note any swings or arhythmic oscillations in the data (increased amplitudes on a non periodic frequency?). If chaos, or overcorrection occurs does this break down?
Daft Punk 'Disk Wars' is perfect for this!
No, it dances to "The Ecstasy of Gold"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGe7iK1O-4
What's the Black Swan that brings THAT monstrosity down? It's a brave new world...
Looks like a Leeerrroooyyyy Jenkins! moment to me.
What do you think Timmah, can you give me a number crunch real quick?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
Try this (Chopin):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28sdV_DXSrU&feature=related
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What is Love
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01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000
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00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011
00100000 01100001 01110000 01110000
01110010 01101111 01110000 01110010
01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000
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Like a 13 year old with a playstation, it would not surprise me if Obama has access to the ON/OFF button on the stock market that Bernanke has that controls the up and down daily movements of the Russell 2000!
It's an 8 bit Nintendo from '87 and Timmah controls the market by playing the game PPT: Masters of the Universe and the High Frequency Algos from Hell.
Someone does, but whoever it is is much more important than the president.
remember all the jokes about Dubya being on vacation so often? and now Obama gets folks counting up his days "off" - connect the dots people, figureheads paid to take the heat, while the real work is done "backstage". . .
by the way, it appears the Repub team prezzies spend the most time "away" in their first year as titleholder. . .but who's counting. . .
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/president-obamas-vacation-days/
Skynet, bitchez. All you need is this video and that one from last week with the swarm of drones flying in formation to see the future.
Mongo said....
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To follow that meme....
1001001 SOS....
1001001 In Distress.....
Bows his head to the Mother Of All Machines !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-erwkhpXQ&feature=related
Which leads us to being ground "Between The Wheels"
'We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets' red glare
Down to "Brother can you spare..."
Another war..
Another wasteland
And another lost generation'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGasaah8lrw&feature=related
In The Year 2525....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8&feature=related
House. Of. Cards.
keeping the topic relevant
lolz - look at all of that liquidity!
Flames of Hell?
If they would institute a 1 cent, penny, $.01 fee/tax on every equity transaction, then HFT trading would slow (better, a $1 fee) and it would be frightfully obvious that Mom and Pop investors have left the building. It's all hyper institutional, with much of it simply algo now. Has nothing to do with investing and that should scare the hell out of organizations that actually need stable capital vs trading transactions.
yea thats a great idea. give more tax money to the govt because they are spending current tax money so wisely. lets reward their healthy fiscal discipline and give them a raise.
here's a better idea. close the revolving door between the SEC/FINRA and goldman suchs/jpmorgue/morgan stuckups/etc and enforce common sense regulation already on the books. then we can talk about a raise
I like your thinking. Every time I hear someone say : "legalize xxx and tax the hell out of it" I say exactly what you have said....."why because the government needs more money to waste?" I really really wish the government would go away.....starved or hyperinflated or ignored....when did we completely loose control???What a world I'm leaving behind...what an awful mess.
Governments are going to collect taxes anyway, so the penny they would take on each transaction that slows this HFT down only hurts the banksters, and might mean a penny less each time that they take from the 99%, so why are you pushing for Wall Street banksters to continue vacuuming up anything else left that they don't already own? Tobin Tax AND closing that revolving door!
Why not impose a "holding time" requirement. Once you place a bid you can't retract it for 5 seconds (or whatever length of time would create a more level playing field)? That would also kill HFT churners without punishing everybody else with a new tax...
Ding ding ding ding...we have a winner!
Spoken like a true Luddite. I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is the future. HFT is here to stay as an example of a truly efficient market finding prices. You're just jealous because you cannot find buyers and if you do you don't get any arbitrage... tough shit, I want to be a cobbler, but guess what- nike made it cheaper for people to buy new ones than get there old ones fixed.
(BTW, I really don't want to be a cobbler I have a job where I make things more efficient.)
Stop trying to tax solutions. Shame on everyone who up arrowed. The practice is fundamentally unfair. THAT needs to be changed- better yet no allowed.
Put a fee on it they will just find a way around it.
Am I reading this right? ZHr's trying to 'fix' the system? Are you mad? There is no fix for this shit. Total re-set baby and nothing less. Start over with some sort of legal bartering and go from there........that's it. Nothing else makes sense.
Clarity, I have none. I have often wondered why someone who takes a risk on an investment over a long period of time, like a 20 year real estate venture, is in the same capital gains arena as a mainframe trading over a very short time frame. I have no clarity why income taxes are indexed but capital gains time periods are not.
Signed,
A non-elite equity investor person being screwed at tax time
Why the fuck are you paying tax , you like killing people around the world , people like you should be ashamed.
Roger that.
Reducing/eliminating your tax bill is far more satisfying, and productive, than voting.
oh hell yes!
+ & *nod*
now you know why ALL governments should be pushing for Tobin Tax, not just France and Germany. Screw Cameron and City!
It's vitally important AND to regulate all naked derivative plays, banning all OTC derivatives which are nOT regulated and kicking the teeth out of ISDA, banksta czars. That should help for a start, then the banksta prosecution to follow.
We need to punish honest investors in order to punish the Wall Street moneymen. Most of these HFT orders are never executed.
Why not just outlaw HFT, unless they are allowing these crimes to continue and using HFT's as an excuse to tax everyone else.
Why not outlaw cars and make every drive horse and buggy? It would make the horse farmers more money.,
That's awesome and scary at the same time.
Looks like a out of control fire consuming a building...impressive Tyler. Thank you.
That's exactly what it is... only difference is that it isn't a building that's being consumed...
+1
Its all of us!
No it ain't. Heh heh heh.
trance to the graph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t98IWdc-Zb0
There have always been ghosts in the machine
How do we explain this behavior?
Random segments of code?
Or is it something more......
wow this is brilliant, something definitely changed in 2011 - I could also notice some mini regime changes before. Could anyone provide more info as to what exactly these charts would represent ?
Black Box loves you honey...
Pure hypnosis.
Can you set that to music please? Toccata And Fugue In D Minor should work nicely.
No, it's Black Sabbath War Pigs
Brokers gathered in their masses....
it's the sonic sound signature of stampeding Herd, sorry Hedge, Funds
but cacophony near the end...having lost all rhythm, melody and proceeding in random time signatures using imaginary numbers "the center cannot hold"
I'm going with an old Chemical Bros. track, The Sunshine Underground - it's a nice slow build, gets going at about 3.5min in, perfect for the colour spikes - but yeah, the towards the end with the cascading beat samples, say from about 5min in - just played it watching the spikes, *grins*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IykWbUVDWL8
great chart, thanks Tylers.
Per Flakmeister:
Worshipped by Cramers and Kasses.
Evil algos of destruction,
sorcerers of banks' construction.
In the Hamptons, bodies whoring,
as the churn machine keeps warring.
Debt corruption like a haze,
loots all the 401Ks.
Oh Lloyd yeah!
Well done...
+1000 Paranoid Fairies that Wear Boots !!!
evil minds that plot destruction
Symptom of The Universe
Rehypothenoid
What a brilliant .gif :D
Thanks, Tyler.
If it's fire....... LET IT BURN!!!!!
Yeah maybe it's the markets turning to Hell
Burn MF'er Burn
..anything and everything does around New York bwankers ..weird
You know what else might explain what was broken on downgrade day?
The fact that the announcement was on Friday after trading stopped, when the market went berserk 2 days earlier. S&P clearly leaked the downgrade in advance (either that or Obama's admins did it once they were served). The public announcement after trading was stopped for the weekend could not have been better engineered to start a market crash. Big players knew in advance and profited by going short on the market.
I forget how many points exactly the DOW was down the following Monday, it was at least 500. What I would like to see is an analysis of the short interest in the market starting the Tuesday before the downgrade until the Monday after the announcement. How this slipped under the radar is beyond me, the WSJ did a tiny piece about an investigation over insider trading, but the whole thing disappeared.
Well the guys at the SEC are glued to the Mexican midget wrestling porn and just do not have the time to look at what is happening in the market....
Some people think we need to hire more SEC regulators to watch porn
Maybe eTrade ran a commercial that day and got everyone to join? Sort of like when AOL unleashed their hoardes upon USENET*
* http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html
My guess ... someone on the inside made a shit load of money in those chaotic days.
Apparently the plan worked beautifully, as we are still here six months or so later trying to figure it out.
Does anybody have a legend or scale please? 1500 * what?
I believe that is the time of the day. Military time.
I think he's asking about the vertical scale, not horizontal.
I have no idea.....other than knowing that 1500 is three times greater than 500 and 10 times greater than 150.......the apparent average when the movie (.GIF) started. :>)
Quotes/bids per milli/microsecond?
Quotes per second.
Probably in thousands.
Beautiful
TD : Some time ago ZH posted a thread where it said that HFT was under regulatory investigation and thus a THING OF THE PAST. I remember clearly that ZH became famous for having being the first blog to denounce these high powered shenanigans on the Net.
I assumed tht it would end; this legal action would take away this fundamentally flawed technique giving unfair advantage to TBTF parties on both sides of the pond and now international practice.
Now your current post shows this was just false mirrors and pseudo regulatory procedure, once more, left hand operation by regulators.
AM I right or have I missed something?
70% of trading is HFT, how you gonna stop it?
rhetorical if left unregulated. Regulating GS on Greek swaps is like swapping punches with world champ in his training camp...you get black eye.
Who's going to regulate? These fine people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ir_mKso_qc
the same who put them behind bars; the USA government has all the instruments but not the will. Nuance!
Warren G can regulate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY&ob=av2e
http://theimperatore.blogspot.com
these clowns?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOXhxa0jrQ
Alas, we put a modicum of faith that the US regulators may for once do their job. We were fatally wrong to escape our usual cynical mindset.
In other news, remember when the Fed was investigating Goldman for those Greek currency swaps? That was a damn fine investigation...
That'll teach ya to mainline Hopium!
boy! i'll tell ya, tyler!
brownie did a helluva job there, didn't he?
Eat the Rich!
They have been eating You! and Yours!! for GENERATIONS!!!
and Lloyd Blanklook himself.
Someone should alerts the frogs that the water temperature is near boiling.
Time to exit stage up.......and out.
Eat the Rich!
They have been eating You! and Yours!! for GENERATIONS!!!
With the retail investor out of the equity market, at least we now have a visual representation of the perceived liquidity in the market.
I just got back from pinching a loaf. Let me check the markets. I will be back
People still need reminding of this.
Likely nothing will be done until it crashes hard
And nothing will be done after it crashes really hard, either. HFT will then be the only pulse left in the monster. They keep it alive to give CNBC something to blather about is the only reason.
I don't even know where to begin trying to understand this.. wtf is going on out there?
Yup, it looks like someone threw gas on the fire on Aug. 5. Upon further reflection, that is what actually happened.
Looks like an ET invasion picked up by SETI. Mars bailout coming?
It's the "Wow!" signal. As in "Wow! Better get the hell out of these markets before they blow!"
Speaking of volume
Yea, , Its off the lows alright. That analysis is on da house
This is what I love about ZH- that is a perfect illustration of market swamping HFT and a reminder that the downgrade really was our Waterloo. Big funds have rules about creditworthiness that forced the banking institutions to keep the 'market' alive via millions of tit for tat trades.. is that about it?
Trying to understand here.
I always thought a small transaction fee was a good idea, now I'm pretty sold on it.
that will be 5 cents, please
LoL-
Uhh, I'll have that nickel tuesday,
or would you like a check?
I wonder what sound(s) or song you'd get if you fed these charts into sound generating software.
Sort of the tune of the market...
And don't tell me it's life support machine sounds... LOL
it sounds just like a train wreck
There is a guy who is "playing" tree rings. He uses a laser to read the subtle differences in density and color and the information is converted into notes on a piano. I wish I could remember the name....
here ya go Buttertooth:
http://io9.com/5879326/a-machine-that-turns-a-trees-rings-into-a-musical...
good vid showing the machine "reading" the rings. . . thanks!
I'm thinking something kind of like bohemian rhapsody...