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Is Lewis right — is the U. Lewis and other market-watchers highlight how large securities traders construct so-called algorithmic computer trading models that, in effect, front-run by milliseconds the trades of ordinary retail investors meaning Main Street continues to be taken advantage of by Wall Street.

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For sure, the average Main Street investor does not trust securities market-makers; without understanding the technicalities of why or how the game may be rigged, he or she just knows it is, having witnessed two unprecedented major downturns in the markets between and And that experience has left Main Street investors wary and largely on the sidelines during the recent market run-up because of such well-founded mistrust.

And fundamentally, that is a bigger problem. A day-trading mentality is just self-defeating.

Constructing a well-diversified portfolio is the only way most people should invest. As I learned when I was being trained in my first financial job — an analyst at First Chicago — my boss said something I have always remembered: Gaming the financial markets hurts our markets and does not build long-term value for our economy.

Reform is long overdue. Our very economic future depends on it.

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