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...The leverage deployed can be enormous — in some cases more than 100 times — and regulators fret that it could result in a flash crash in prices if multiple hedge funds were forced to close out their positions...
...We’re living in an incredible time — which is a car crash of narcissism and voyeurism.” Consequently, she didn’t want to have her portrait taken to accompany this feature....
...Algos gone wild A perennial classic ever since the 2010 flash crash....
...That's definitely flash-crash spoof trader Navinder Singh Sarao, from an original sketch by Elizabeth Cook. Martha Stewart of course, from an original sketch by Jane Rosenberg....
...Clearly, Microsoft today is not the pets.com of 1999 — perhaps the most famous flash-in-the-pan failures of that era....
...Gary seems flash but he’s not ostentatious. After watching him deliver a video “Does GDP Matter to Ordinary People?”...
...Remember the Citigroup banker who briefly caused a flash crash in European markets after he accidentally added an extra zero to a trade. The market will usually crucify you for errors like these....
...Carlyle’s loan to a UK airport faces a crash landing A near-deserted airport on the outskirts of London is at the centre of an escalating dispute between US private equity giant Carlyle Group and a tiny...
...Just as compelling are occasional flash-forwards to the survivors’ arrival home following their rescue, where they are mobbed by a media keen to know exactly what took place in the woods....
...The experience of the crypto crash shows four deep-rooted problems that are as relevant today as on the day Bankman-Fried filed for bankruptcy. 1....
...They cause what's called a flash crash, a sudden drop in a number of European stocks, because of a fat finger trading error....
...At times he surrenders to the rhythm, his stamping foot mirroring the crash-bang-wallop of the pianos, but he can slip without warning into a contrapuntal quarrel with the music, compounding Stravinsky’s...
...But rapid declines in market prices, or “flash crashes”, are occurring with increasing frequency. Each post mortem reveals a different strategy, or market participant, being forced to sell....
...The island is flat; pools of water flash silver-blue against granite and old-gold lichen....
Norse remorse.
...“Managed futures funds are in crash protection mode — as bearishly positioned as any time during the past decade and a half....
...The gilt flash crash is just one symptom of a deeper disease in how financial markets work today, argues Eric Lonergan: “the volatility virus”....
...The Flash Crash of 2010 revealed that even US regulators struggled to get to grips with the balkanised US equity market ecosystem, so the SEC proposed a comprehensive database that would continuously collect...
...Meanwhile, the Treasury Department is reviewing public comments on how to make sure we don’t get a flash crash in T-bills....
...The term “flash crash” was coined in May 2010 when US stock indices plunged at a dizzying speed as computers struggled to react to a large order in the US futures market, kicking off a chain reaction that...
...The chicken buses come barrelling past, a flash of colours accompanied by blaring horns and exhaust pipes....
...crash” in 2014 in which prices across all maturities swung dramatically.The fragility was most recently exposed in March 2020 when coronavirus pandemic fears ignited a chaotic dash for cash that led to...
...Occasionally the effect can be obvious, such as in May, when a Citigroup trader reportedly added an extra zero to a programme trade and started a Europe-wide flash crash....
...The case study below is based on a “flash crash” about a year ago that wrongfooted many leveraged bitcoin traders....
...A Citi trader last month made erroneous trades on European stocks, a move later blamed for causing a mini flash crash....
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