Forum Post: Day Trading Eclipses Corporate Greed

Day trading is a terrible selfish act that is exploiting the American people. A day trader is not an investor. They do not have interest investing in a corporation to build a better America. They are not interested in the growth of American companies and the employment of the American people. Day traders use volatility of stock markets to skim a profit with day, hour, or minute trades. This type of trading further increases the volatility. It creates a feedback cycle that if allowed to continue will prolong the current suffering of the American people. These trades are having numerous negative effects on our economy including artificial inflation of stock prices, flash market crashes, and the creation of bubbles. These effects cause companies to fail and others to become over-valued. These effects cost Americans jobs and retirement investments. What is to come as more trades are made by computer programs and artificial intelligence with micro-second trades in order to capitalize on small fluctuations in stock value? What is to come as the efficiency of the day trade skimming increases? Do we as Americans want an increasingly volatile stock market or do we want increasing stability in the stock market? We as Americans cannot allow this greed to continue weakening a backbone of our economy. We must end day trading. The stock markets need investors for a better America. The stock markets need to be free of the few selfish who are using exploits at the expense of the American people.

Please get this message out to America.