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>> is this a fund liquidating? >> stocks go boink and then back up. the markets still were down 300 points today but at one point down more than a thousand points. nasdaq and the new york stock exchange ultimately late in the day decided to do something amazing, to cancel, annul all of the trades that took place in that crazy moment. they decided to annul all of the trades between 2:40 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. eastern. if those trades showed a fluctuation of more than 60% of what they were before the flash crash. what on earth happened today? the 2010 flash crash. what on earth did happen that day? ...
Crash. what on earth happened today? the 2010 flash crash. what on earth did happen that day? now we know. there's lots of initial speculation it was a fat finger problem. that human error caused the big dramatic plunge. maybe somebody added an extra couple zeros to an order or something. that didn't end up being true. the securities and exchange commission spent months looking into what happened and issued a report that showed a perfect storm of conditions. it was an unusually turbulent day already for the markets driven mostly by stuff going on in europe. there was one really big trade, on p...
>> is this a fund liquidating? >> stocks go boink and then back up. the markets still were down 300 points today but at one point down more than a thousand points. nasdaq and the new york stock exchange ultimately late in the day decided to do something amazing, to cancel, annul all of the trades that took place in that crazy moment. they decided to annul all of the trades between 2:40 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. eastern. if those trades showed a fluctuation of more than 60% of what they were before the flash crash. what on earth happened today? the 2010 flash crash. what on earth did happen that day? ...