Talk:Trading strategy

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High-speed trading
A section or page about the 'high-speed trading' or 'flash trading' strategy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/business/25trading.html

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/08/01/wall-street-ripoff-2-0-high-speed-trading-and-deep-dark-pools/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124940289965505053.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.24.123.104 (talk) 17:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Why is there a link to real-file facial hair "shaving" in the timeframes section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.62.202.241 (talk) 13:56, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Recent additions to the article
Recently, the text Speculative practices are critized by many economists, blamed in the moral religious context, and widely opposed by investors was reinserted into the article. The sources that are cited (at least the ones I have access to; I don't have F, catholique) do not seem to support these allegations, and I question whether they would be reliable sources for these claims. For example, the edubourse source has no byline, so we cannot identify who wrote it. I also don't see any editorial influence on this site. As for the Catholic Encyclopedia, it may be a reliable source (although it is a tertiary source, which I believe we try to avoid relying on), but the linked entry deals with speculation in general, not "trading strategies", and it certainly does not say anything about criticism by economists or wide opposition by investors. (I would add that the inserted text also contains some weasel words.) The thrust of the CE entry may be that some forms of speculation are considered immoral by the author, but there's no indication that the author is referring to "trading strategies" in particular.

As such, I've removed the text from the article. I welcome feedback from other editors on the matter. /wiae /tlk  11:57, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Let me add that I have no particular objection to a "Criticism of trading strategies" section, but only if it can be properly sourced to reliable sources on economics that discuss the subject in appropriate detail. Thanks, /wiae /tlk  12:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Unreadable
The page offers nothing useful, and is confusing. Defining short trading (presumably not to be confused with shorting), and then defining long trading as the opposite. I was rapidly put off, and learned nothing from the page. For instance, what does this "The difference between short trading and long-term investing is in the opposite approach and principles" mean?

Later on the article talks about there being 2 types of algorithm, then had a list of techniques, without explaining which category each belongs to.

What does "In the moral context speculative activities are considered negatively and to be avoided by each individual. Who conversely should maintain a long-term horizon avoiding any types of short term speculation." mean?[Special:Contributions/2A00:23C8:A20:1E01:1A1C:F3AA:A97E:8DDF|2A00:23C8:A20:1E01:1A1C:F3AA:A97E:8DDF]] (talk) 07:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)