February 6, 2022
Dear all,
As a Dutch citizen and believer in free and competitive markets. I feel obligated to comment on this, due to the fact of what is happening in the financial markets today. As someone who trades in the free market because I firmly believe that if lots of people would support the companies they want to see succeed.
I have been witness to news articles and manipulative comments across the internet that almost makes it seem like we are not in a free market, but in a market controlled by algorithms and entities with inside knowledge.
Last week, I saw that the SEC claimed that sometimes 95% of trades happen in dark pools. How is it possible that in a free market just 5% of trades go to lit markets, this seems unbelievable but sadly true. I'm just a no one across the globe, but I firmly believed that the US of A would never commit or allow crime against itself and the free world.
I don't know if this comment is of value to the SEC, but it is to me.