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Re:Guy trading at home caused the flash crash of 2010 by johntb86 on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:41PM (#9422594)
But these are high-frequency trades, which mean that they're executed by a computer programmed to do that. If you can examine exactly what it was programmed to do then that could probably help prove intent.
Re:Guy trading at home caused the flash crash of 2010 by cma on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:17PM (#9422863)
"You're honor, it wasn't me, it just deep-learned it that way."

If a program uses AI to come up with strategies, how do you make sure it doesn't learn to spoof? Coming up with the goal-formulation of "don't spoof" seems like it would require the program to introspect about its own intent. Dunno, I would like to hear what kind of metrics one would use to make the learning algorithm reject spoofing strategies. I guess it would be something similar to whatever heuristics the SEC uses to flag potential spoofing, but they get a lot of false positives and almost never convict someone on metrics.