Light Pool

What do you guys think of this? Is this a relatively new creation (i.e. a market that is restricted to only a certain investor trading profile)? Credit Suisse plans to launch a new stock-trading market that aims to protect long-term investors from predatory trading practices, Dow Jones reported. The network, called Light Pool, will block orders from opportunistic traders when they cross certain thresholds. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-11/credit-suisse-plans-light-pool-stock-market-aimed-at-long-term-investors.html

leave it to the swiss to bring the boring

About time! Need to get back to fundamentals rather than the video game market we currently have…

When has the market not been a game? In the short run, it’s always been dominated by speculation and not fundamentals.

so basically the prices will be set by long-term minded fundamentalists, right? will this be the model of predicatability? if so, it will be wide-open for speculators and someone will break the ‘code of honor’ and clean up. evolution, baby - just try to stop it.