Just have a look on the Tickchart of today’s action in the S&P emini Future at 7:01 London Time.
Slightly scary to imagine, what could happen.
Here it is:

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Januar 14th, 2008 at 10:43
[…] Originally Posted by firewalker99 Doesn’t look like it’s on my platform alone. There’s a 100-point spike on the DOW too, and according to this, somebody pulled the wrong trigger "Someone, an unfortunate soul, just made an error and sold 60,000 e-mini contracts and plunged the market for a minute or so. Now we are back up to where we were." (from Trader Tom: : Dow, FTSE, Dax and NASDAQ) There’s a thread on ET as we speak, apparently the exchanges will bust those trades… I like the TICK chart I don’t have it on my platform, but here it is When a computer goes NUTS | Riding the DAX […]
Januar 15th, 2008 at 00:03
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