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DealBook lost $440 million yesterday

 
 
Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2012 10:48 am
A computer glitch went into action for this investment company yesterday and made trades in the stock market that resulted in their loss of $440 million dollars.

The market was quite "wild" yesterday, and I wondered why. We now know what happened, and it seems to be impacting today's trade also.

I was up 8.5% through yesterday; I wonder how the year is going to end up now.
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2012 02:15 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Knight Capital lost over 74% of their value during the past two days.

Will they survive?

Letting their computer control 100% their investments is stupid. That's the reason why even airplanes have pilots that have auto-pilot.

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