High Frequency Trading

Yes, someone around thisisntgood.com got a hold of Michael Lewis’ Book “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” and wants to revolutionize the stock market. Rest assured, they are only half way through reading it and want to do away with High Frequency Trading — the unfair advantage certain financial firms have that allows them to get ahead of the common investor — and possibly the whole stock market. Dealing with billions of dollars on a daily basis and billions of trades on a daily basis just sounds too complicated to exist, and if an internet blogger can’t understand it in three sentences, delete it.

Most of us just want the simple things like a Ferrari 458 Italia, a condominium with bedrooms that echo, and a Panini press that never has to turn off. Even simpler, no one wants to go to the University of Freeze-ass in Russia to study computer programming and learn what High-Frequency Trading actually is or how to become a part of such a phenomenon of ethical ambiguity. We just want to sit here looking towards a street named after a retaining barrier and wait to get rich from a lawsuit that throws hush-money in our direction.

Can asking for things be a skill? I know patience is a virtue, but is there a high paying  job where someone is hired to ask for ridiculously overpriced crap all day with no education or ambition? Maybe that’s just the internet as a whole.

So here at thisisntgood.com, we will publish as much stream of consciousness nonsense until the internet loves us and we become a Fortune 500 company. At some point, people have to realize they are betting millions of lifetimes worth of money on unicorns, leprechauns and crystal Pepsi, and invest in something worthwhile like a website with a very low bar for editorial excellence.