Re:How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
by twic on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:01PM
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> a market data glitch (which is not at all uncommon)
This is a point that bears amplifying. People who do not work in the financial industry may not appreciate just how bad market data feeds are. Radical jumps with no basis in reality, prices dropping to zero, regular ticks going missing, services going offline altogether with no warning, etc.
This is a point that bears amplifying. People who do not work in the financial industry may not appreciate just how bad market data feeds are. Radical jumps with no basis in reality, prices dropping to zero, regular ticks going missing, services going offline altogether with no warning, etc.