Guy Trading at Home Caused the Flash Crash

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Guy Trading at Home Caused the Flash Crash

An instance of «well, that escalated quickly». One man’s silly money-making-tricks make money-making-algorithms go crazy, stock market crashes, 1 trillion dollars vanish within minutes.


From Weekly Filet #206, in May 2015.

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