re: What is the Money Board's opinion on high frequency trading?

I would have to agree with Mr. Farley. Having said that, I routinely attempt to route certain trades to dark pools of liquidity, so although not exactly to point in the OP, it can and does work to a small guy's advantage also.

I can see where I route my trades, but not where they are actually executed. But based on buying some securities lower than the day's low every great once in a while, I have a pretty good idea my routing worked. The other possibility is my broker selling their own, or a customers shares to me for their own reasons.