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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;InfleXion, post: 1627493, member: 29012&quot;]Paper trading does smooth out price swings. It also skews price discovery with artifical supply making true value impossible to determine. It also allows for price to be anything under the sun as long as there is not a shortage. Maybe trading fair value for lack of volatility is a good trade off in your book, but in my book it is a lie.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is not their market. Markets are for everyone who has any small amount of skin in the game, including you, me, and even a few Joe Sixpacks. We are all participants. Just because the little people are a drop in the ocean doesn&#039;t mean they don&#039;t still have their small impact. Small is not zero.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If there were an alternative method of price discovery then I would agree with you, but there is not, and that is the problem. You say use something else. I am all ears if there is something else. The fact is they have a monopoly on price discovery. Maybe the people who are the primary drivers in this market want stability above all else, but that doesn&#039;t mean a lie isn&#039;t a lie. I don&#039;t like lies or liars, so I have a problem with this and I will continue to expose it until markets are fair and honest again.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think a more appropriate analogy is big fish, small fish. None of the fish own the pond, unlike a bus. Some fish like to think they do, but they are arrogant or ignorant. They may be able to make big waves and control the direction of the current, but they don&#039;t own it. They might like to think that we don&#039;t occupy some small space in &quot;their&quot; water, but we do, and we outnumber them too. They could all go away and we would get along just fine like we did for thousands of years before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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