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Wow. Some of that is so true it hurts. Especially about the spreads so wide you could drive a truck through them. It really did used to be so much easier...
Edmundo-Why were the spreads so wide, less liquidity/participants?
Edmundo-Why were the spreads so wide, less liquidity/participants?
No computers to fuck everything up, and no Internet that enabled every Johnny Lunchbucket to see what was going on.
You used to have to go through a rigorous approval process just to seewhowas on the bid and the offer, and for how much.
I have a theory about it all. Back then, there was no transparency on the Street, especially if you were a client. You were completely at the mercy of your broker/trader. Now that every Tom, Dick, and Harry has access to every conceivable bit of information, the Street has had to make everything so exotic and complicated that no one understands what the fuck is going on even though they can see everything right in front of them.
Innovate to keep the customers in the dark, I suppose.
wow eddie that is brilliant! Honestly that makes a ton of sense. The exotic credit derivatives that were part of the crisis in 2007/2008 are an interesting example however in that case it seems like the traders at the banks didnt even understand what they weretradingand only a few people truly understood it.
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hilarious
T4S,
I was just out walking my dogs and I thought of the ultimate example of why it was so much easier back in the day to make money because of the spreads, and it didn't have anything to do with liquidity - it was all about a lack of competition.
When I was in S&T (we didn't call it that back then, but same thing) for aninvestment bankin 1993, if I wanted to buy something in my own account I had to do it in my account at the firm so there wouldn't be any compliance issues. The minimum I could chargemyselfwas $45 a trade - onbothsides. If it was a large trade, the firm would grumble if I didn't kick in a penny a share on top of the $45, too.That wasas a Series 7-licensedemployeeof the firm.
Fast forward to 1998. I'm a Series 3 commodities trader exclusively now, so I'm allowed to have an outside account for my own personal equitytrading. I choose Kennedy Cabot, which was one of the deep discount brokers at the time. Commission per trade? $65. You don't even want to know what they charged to trade options.
Today I have an account at OptionsHouse and I pay $2.95 a trade for equities and a buck apiece for options. The spreads have narrowed to nothing thanks to the Internet and all the competition it brought about.
If you go back and read my Scam Science post onChop, it explains all the madness that went on inside the spreads back then.
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