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Flash Crash

October 03, 2010 Single Trade Helped Spark May's Flash Crash - Yahoo! News Posted by Marianne Puni 1 Oct 2010 [...] A computer-driven sale worth $4.1 billion by a single trader helped trigger the May flash crash, setting off liquidity shocks that [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 SEC, CFTC Blame Algorithm For Flash Crash Send by www.marketwatch.com The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission blame a computer trading algorithm in their long-awaited report seeking to identify what caused a massive flash crash on May 6, [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Hedgefinger: Flash Crash Was Just Kinda Run Of The Mill Day For ... Send by Holden D. Redbone Flash Crash Was Just Kinda Run Of The Mill Day For Shop That Caused The Fuss. Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., the mutual-fund manager based in the heart of Kansas that caters to mom and pop investors, is an unlikely company to be blamed [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 The WilliamBanzai7 Blog: WADDELL & REED FLASH CRASH EVIDENCE LEAKED Send by williambanzai7 WADDELL & REED FLASH CRASH EVIDENCE LEAKED. Posted by williambanzai7. Reactions: 0 comments: Post a Comment. Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 LQD Latest Mini Flash Crash. 16 Seconds Of Fury | Themis Trading Blog Send by sarnuk LQD is the ETF that corresponds to the investment grade croporate bond fund. It is a $15 billion dollar ETF by market cap. It is an iShares product. It is used. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Replaying The Flash Crash | Zero Hedge Send by Tyler Durden Did you notice the flash crash in the $RIFIN? I know it's an index, sir, but I think I am starting to get concerned about the urine content of the clam chowder around here, and I think I just saw something strange in a VHS Bambi tape as [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 Missing Links In Flash Crash Report Posted by Marianne Puni The release of Fridays much anticipated Flash Crash report lays a good foundation for a 15 minute trade event that precipitated the one day unexplained spring stock market meltdown. But to really understand the full issue, the next step that could point to solutions, is to also dig deeper and u [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Wall Street Flash Crash Sparked By Computer Algorithm Send by news.yahoo.com The May 6 Wall Street "Flash Crash" that saw the Dow Jones index dive 700 points within minutes was sparked by a computer algorithm, according to a report by US watchdogs published Friday. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Was The April 28 Mini Flash Crash A Grand Rehearsal For The Real ... Send by EWGMS Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2010 11:56 -0500 One of the scarier conclusions arising from the work of the market forensic specialists at Nanex is that. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Readings: Education, Divorce, Debt, Flash Crash, Solar, Etc. Send by pk Readings: Education, Divorce, Debt, Flash Crash, Solar, etc. I'm Shocked -- Shocked! -- to Find Cartels Going on in Here | Home | The Big Question: Celebrities, Shoes and Women [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 Single Trade Helped Spark May's Flash Crash (Reuters) | MMC-NEWS Posted by Marianne Puni NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) A computer-driven sale worth $4.1 billion by a single trader helped trigger the May flash crash, setting off | Post by mmc-news.com. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Today On Wall Street: Horrible Volume, Layoff News, And Another ... Send by Joe Weisenthal Then there was a flash crash today. Progress Energy fell from over $40 to around $4 in a few minutes (before recovering). It's just one stock, but it confirmed that the post May 6 circuit breakers don't work as advertised -- another [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 High-Frequency Traders: (Maybe) Not The Flash Crash Bad Guys ... Send by Jonathan Cheng High-frequency trading firms didn't all pull out of the market during the May 6 "flash crash," today's SEC report says. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Flash Crash Report Charts: Sure Are Purdy. Finance Blog Send by Insurance The report on the the May 6 flash crash is out. Go to Source. Flash Crash Report: The Unnamed 'Large Fundamental Trader'. about -1 years ago - No comments. So, the Flash Crash report is better than we expected. Go to Source [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 Troubling Trades Found Ahead Of Flash Crash - NYTimes.com Send by By GRAHAM BOWLEY A Chicago data firm has put together an analysis of the May 6 flash crash that it says backs the theory that one or more trading firms was intentionally trying to flood exchanges with orders. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 02, 2010 HTML Twitter Widget Posted by Marianne Puni Oh, a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be nice to put a Twitter widget on this here blog. When I went to "goodies" on the Twitter site to set up a widget, I didn't like how it looked (ie. logos). And, when I went to others' blogs, the widgets were very simple. I don't know much about HTML, bu [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 Positive Feedback And The Flash Crash Donald Marron Send by Donald Marron The CFTC and SEC staffs are out with their analysis of the May 6 flash crash. Short version: A large trader (identified by the media as Waddell & Reed) initiated a large sell order to be executed based on volume, not time or price. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 01, 2010 Hundreds Of Thousands Of Trades Canceled As LQD Flash Crash ... Send by Tyler Durden In the meantime, we look for the next Waddell and Reed induced flash crash. Luckily, the porn-fetish morons have demonstrated once again they have a "very deep understanding" of if not the markets, then at least how to use [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 Single Trade Helped Spark May's Flash Crash (Reuters) | EnUws Posted by Marianne Puni Reuters - A computer-driven sale worth $4.1 billion by a single trader helped trigger the May flash crash, setting off liquidity shocks [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

October 03, 2010 Cool-O-Rama SEC Blames Computer Algorithm For 'Flash Crash' Send by Staff Lucas123 writes The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an 87-page report (PDF) on the results of a months-long investigation into the May 6 'flash crash' that sent the Dow [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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