One shudders to think of the future calamity of an even worse, more epic, flash crash.
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We saw historically high volatility after the economic crisis and after that flash crash.
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The Flash Crash of 2010 was the wake-up call for ordinary investors that these new markets.
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Certainly those types of reforms, those would have addressed the issues surrounding the flash crash.
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The flash crash "clearly revealed some problems, " Mr. Mathisson said in a recent interview.
Others say that, despite the May 6 flash crash, the markets are largely functioning well.
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It only lasted minutes, but the flash crash will have consequences that last for years.
But with every flash crash and bungled offering, more investors are losing faith in the stock market.
Treasuries also behaved as expected during the flash crash of 2010 and the third quarter of 2011.
The flash crash in May has prompted a manhunt for a bad actor or actors at work.
The May 6, 2010 flash crash spiked at 2.6 million messages per second, setting a new record.
The flash crash and circuit breakers were also debated at a press event at Liquidnet on June 15.
Confidence took another beating in the May 2010 "flash crash, " when the Dow briefly plunged nearly 1, 000 points.
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The May 2010 "flash crash" erased 1, 000 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in a matter of minutes.
The most famous was May's"flash crash, " during which the stock market lost 600 points in a matter of minutes.
While many are still blaming HFT for the flash crash and distorting the markets, Terpstra takes a pragmatic view.
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The flash crash was not high frequency trading, it was high velocity trading.
In situations like the flash crash, market makers seem to be the key to finding the other side of trades.
High frequency trading has been scrutinized in recent years because of its links to financial scares like the Flash Crash.
On May sixth, the euro fears had flooded over the transom and we were treated to the infamous Flash Crash.
After the flash crash last May, regulators implemented safeguards in the stock market by putting circuit breakers on individual stocks.
During the flash crash in May 2010, for example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 1, 000 points before quickly rebounding.
But Bill Spiropoulos president and CEO of Core States Capital Advisors was dealt a paranoid client way before any flash crash occurred.
The market recovered quickly after the Flash Crash, he added, while in the days of floor specialists recovery of liquidity took weeks.
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Prior to the market's "flash crash" last week, the stock was rallying steadily along support at its 10-week and 20-week moving averages.
Regulators have been taking steps to prevent another flash crash from occurring.
The circuit breakers successfully prevented a serious problem from growing into another flash crash, but their effects on the markets are very disruptive.
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Some broker-dealers ask for data at a specific point in time, such as the Flash Crash so they can test their algorithms against it.
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And one question that became especially relevant after the flash crash was whether high-speed traders who reliably supplied liquidity would do so in crisis.
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