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Isaac King's avatar

Wait, how do you arrive at "high frequency trading is productive" from these arguments? The stock market is only informative when traders are acting on relevant information. High-frequency trading is the opposite; competing on speed without contributing external information of their own.

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Rohit Krishnan's avatar

Good essay. I'd prefer if we didn't tax all intra-trading profits such that the tax on changing asset allocatoin composition is not punished.

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Ehsan's avatar

I remember Apple's relief from the Tariffs showed up in the stock market. Despite the continued disruption within the non-public supply chain and logistics firms. Also, increased compliance and taxation probably precludes sectors that don't grow as well.

Would it be correct to assume more public-trading would normalize "the stock market" and "the economy" ? That decreasing % of economy privately-held would result in more applied information ? That we may witness more accurate-to-the-economy stock price reactions to AI developments, and the like, this way. Thank you for the this !

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