Topic: We should ban algorithmic trading
Algorithmic trading can be manipulated to artificially alter the price by a competitor, harming anyone who uses algorithmic trading.
algorithmic trading can be processed by computers much quicker than trades by humans, this gives some rich firms an unfair advantage.
algorithmic trading can be rigged to benefit those who have the most money to gain
algorithmic trading can boost the economy by making more trades faster.
algorithmic trading can cause rapid fluctuations in the stock market that are far beyond human control and no safeguards are implemented to stop them as well as giving unfair advantage to large-scale traders.
algorithmic trading can cause unnatural market movements.
algorithmic trading can do a job that humans are not able to do
algorithmic trading can is fast and efficient.
Algorithmic trading can lead to sudden market shifts if all bots move at the same time and trigger other algorithms to trade the same way.
Algorithmic trading can operate 24 hours a day. While you sleep, your algorithms are making you money.
algorithmic trading cause massive stock market shifts and impacts on the economy, the practice should be banned
Algorithmic trading causes substantial job loss for employees in the economic sector with few benefits to the market overall.
algorithmic trading could lead to an economic crisis
algorithmic trading could put traditional traders out of a job.
Algorithmic trading creates even bigger wealth gaps than exist in the status quo, as the rich are able to take advantage of the best technology to trade as efficiently as possible while others are priced out.
Algorithmic trading decreases order latency, ensuring that all buyers and sellers get the correct price for their asset without fear of shifts.
Algorithmic trading decreases the cost to trade, making the system more egalitarian and less classist.
algorithmic trading displaces responsibility.
algorithmic trading does not contribute to the growth of society and is profiting without contributing so it should be banned.
algorithmic trading does not inherently do anything to the financial markets that isn't already being done by unscrupulous traders and companies.
algorithmic trading doesn't provide the necessary thought processes of someone paying attention to the trades
algorithmic trading enables a more level playing field in the trading of shares.
algorithmic trading enables more business to be carried out and improves the economy
algorithmic trading enables much faster trading to take place and saves too much time to ban it.
algorithmic trading enables trades to be made without spikes of emotion or rage on the part of the trader, therefore it can only be seen as positive.
algorithmic trading facilitates a more efficient, low cost trading system, lowering barriers to entry.
algorithmic trading gives advantages to some traders over other; this makes it unfair and so it should be banned.
algorithmic trading gives an unfair advantage in the market
algorithmic trading gives an unfair advantage it is able to make trades much faster then a human giving an unfair advantage