guitarman asked:


What % of trades are done automatically on a computer now? It seems as if the stock market can’t fall completely because these computer programs keep boosting it back up. Is a market correction even possible in the day and age of computer programmed trading?

PRESSMAN

i.have.questions asked:


Has (Does?) options-trading (futures) affected the stock market? Is there any positive or negative impact of trading options directly or indirectly on the trading of stocks?

Not that I’m not trying to understand what is options trading - I am trying to find out if there has been any study on the impact of futures trading on a stock market on a general scale.

WILLAIMS

guitarman asked:


What % of trades are done automatically on a computer now? It seems as if the stock market can’t fall completely because these computer programs keep boosting it back up. Is a market correction even possible in the day and age of computer programmed trading?

MONIZ

qwertyuiop12 asked:


And do they outweigh the burden placed on the economy from record high oil prices?

I’m not in the field, but based on my research I’ve come to the conclusion, that record high oil prices are the result of market speculation. Sure demand has its part, but speculation is over inflating the real value of oil and negatively impacting the economy beyond any benefit I can imagine from allowing liquidity in margin trading. So to reassert my question:

Would requiring oil traders to actually take delivery of oil and thereby reducing liquidity in oil trading benefit the economy by quickly reducing oil prices worldwide or harm the economy in the long run?

SEIDELL