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Re:Finance sites erroneously show Amazon, Apple, other stock... by comboy on Monday July 03, 2017 @09:08PM (#14692747)
On Bitcoin exchanges, sure. But here I think there's too much liquidity and automated trading.
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Re:Finance sites erroneously show Amazon, Apple, other stock... by MichaelDickens on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:13AM (#14693679)
I believe the recent Ethereum flash crash demonstrated that this strategy wouldn't work for cryptocurrency either. Ethereum price dropped to $0.10, but it rebounded in about 5 seconds because trading algorithms put in lots of bids at the really cheap price.
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Re:Finance sites erroneously show Amazon, Apple, other stock... by j_s on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:27AM (#14693719)
It did work, but not for many.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14611653

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14690908

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Re:Finance sites erroneously show Amazon, Apple, other stock... by wcummings on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @07:33PM (#14698983)
Too much liquidity?
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