You're point that market makers provide liquidity by flash orders is entirely false. You clearly have no understanding of how market makers actually go about th

You're point that market makers provide liquidity by flash orders is entirely false. You clearly have no understanding of how market makers actually go about their day to day business. Please don't pontificate as if you do, or if you plan to, acknowledge that you're only speculating based on marginal facts and poorly written articles (yes, even the NY Times has horribly inaccurate articles) you've gathered on the internet. In fact, that entire paragraph is pure specious reasoning. The main point that really drove it home for me was: Being able to figure out the limits on the buy/sell orders is simply icing. I can gather you have not actually tried to find a statistical trend in market prices. Simply put, it's difficult to do in practice.