Thursday, May 6, 2010

Programming trading, the Future or the Mistake?

May, 6, 2010, today, Dow had its record drop! Almost 1,000 points in less than half an hour! How was that sound?


After the market closed, NYSE chief operating officer Larry Leibowitz said, they together with other major stock exchanges will holding a conference call with the SEC( Securities and Exchange Commission) to discuss what happened, Accounting to AP.

Some reports came out after the market closed said, a trader mistyped an order to sell a large amount of stock. The drop of that stock trigger "sell" orders across the market.

A lot of Wall St.'s trading activities now without any human involved. Some may say, programming trading is the future, and not only will be the future but is already present. I was on that opinion also until today. The future of the capital market is artificial intelligence trading which involve super computers, mass market dates,




out for dinner.....later....

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