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APC Halted As 200 Shares Trade At $100,000
Talk about Tim Geithner's forced squeeze wet dream. APC price graudally rises from $39.11 to $100,000 per share in one trade. Congratulations to the value buyer who paid $20 million for shares worth under $8,000. This broken market is just getting ridiculous.
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Not if you got your short in there.
Think of the potential for bribery after this becomes a "normal" occurrence. We have a standard news cycle: error reported, stock halted, error corrected, all is back to normal. People get used to it, it becomes no big deal.
Now, think of how easy it would be to transfer huge sums of money in this manner, if you also controlled the so-called regulatory bodies and so-called exchanges that were allegedly unwinding these "erroneous" trades.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
I wish I could find a flaw in what you are suggesting.
The NEW NORMAL -- 100x MORE SURREAL than the OLD NORMAL.
Talk about Tim Geithner's forced squeeze wet dream.
Now that's fucking funny.
Oh yeah, baby.
Confucius say..."Timmy who go to bed with sex problem wake up with solution in hand"
Whadya mean? Timmay was named one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful Men in April 2009!!!
The fact that Timmay looks like Beavis to ordinary folks like us is meaningless -- this should be left up to trained folk with PHDs in fashion and beauty, such as the editors of peer-reviewed PEOPLE magazine.
I think those 200 shares were mine...I'M RICH!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCXnXDiKoQ
the trend is your friend...
FILLED! LOL!
Turn those OTHER MACHINES back off!!!@
If you liked it at $100,000, you'll love it at $250,000.
Buy, buy, buy! ..........Ops, sorry..............Bye, bye, bye!
Youre right, this is getting fucking ridiculous. They should track which ECN these bad trades are routed to, i wonder if its the same one that keeps giving bad prints.
They shouldn't cancel the trades. All of a sudden you'd see this issue go away real quick.
Exactly.
+1 bad hft trade.
EscapeKey for SEC commish!
HAHAHAHA Christ I love it!!
Better than the 'flash crash' even...let's see if we can get a 'souffle' market going and all you 'nimble' traders can retire fat & happy. Maybe I should be trading equities after all.
Let's call this - flash blast.
hehehe
The woosh goose? The strike spike?
Where's a good ad man when you need one!
Hey. Let's do some heroine and trade stocks. We get it cheap from afghanistan operations.
Give it a try with heroin.
Afghanistan being the sexist country that it is it would be hard to find enough marketable heroines.
They just called him.. Fat Fingers
When you need that special job done, give him a call.
As reported earlier The Goldman Fat Finger Boy.
Let's see, just put my little market order in there for couple hundred shares of APC and look, I just bought stock. See that was easy. What the, MOMMMMMMMMM
i am loving this.....i mean, the manipulation in the gold shares is so blatant it is breathtaking.....
bids are bombarding the stocks....AND THEY ARE FALLING!!!!!!!!
AUY, UXG, even some of the big boys...RGLD, GG...
Interesting that the old ES ran right up to 1038 and hit the wall.
Let's just see what the afternoon holds. The PPT will have to work very hard to avoid a major reversal day.
No real surprise to see resitance tested on the daily chart. SPY likely to close below 103 on this fail.
It would be seriously fucking funny if equities reversed today. Serve the fuckers right.
Tough to say they will close in the red, but below 103 is no stretch.
Hmmm...
check out IYR - (w.t.)fugly
Andarko? 25% stake in the Macondo site? this is just too much today.
i'd lik to draw the class' attention to AUY...earlier this morning, this stock fell as the bids outnumbered the asks five to one!!!
now that, .....that is Timmy's real wet dream.
MM do that all the time, its called a trap on the bid. They stack the bid, limit
the ask and the price keeps going down. Nothing new, been going on for years.
i'd lik to draw the class' attention to AUY...earlier this morning, this stock fell as the bids outnumbered the asks five to one!!!
now that, .....that is Timmy's real wet dream.
$100000 yes your eyes are not deceiving you.
C'mon, gather around,gather around folks and take the HYPNO-TEST........only 2 cent$......go ahead and take closer look and see your eyes are not deceiving you....gather around folks.
http://www.paraswadher.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/optical-illusion.png
Now what did you see?
maybe they plugged the hole
+2 (subtle -- but very very funny)
now we are at 23 bid to 1 ask...HOW LOW CAN WE GO????
now we are at 23 bid to 1 ask...HOW LOW CAN WE GO????
This is why I am now putting a crazy good-till-canceled order on my positions. Just waiting for a glitch to make me rich! -hey, I just created a new rallying cry for the modern day investor!!
Come on Lady Luck gltich and make me rich...oh and also don't let them bust my trades!
I'M RICH, GLITCH!!!
this is not an accident - the quants are hacking other quant programs and forcing competitors to fuck up.
AUY...bids now 30 to 1 ask as the stock falls another 2 cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can i get a witness or what????
go Timmy go....you have the most super duper computers in the world...that is fo' sure...
AUY...bids now 30 to 1 ask as the stock falls another 2 cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can i get a witness or what????
go Timmy go....you have the most super duper computers in the world...that is fo' sure...
This would be like a hockey stick on the charts, right ?
any fool could see that $100,000.25 was huge long-term resistance. i still think my $100,000.10 offer has a chance.
That really made me laugh...
GS/JPM. going after the oil industry shorts now.
Anyone else doubt that since GS was hired by BP that they have been supported through the media and rumor contacts such as a timely "relief well ahead of schedule" spin who simply said late July is possible however August is more likely. Such a wonderful press release on a weekend where BP was though to have been seeking life saving cash infusions.
Even if they cap that well next week the damage is done. Reports of higher concentrations of Aresenic in the water as a result of oil preventing the aresenic from being filtered by the seafloor.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/gulf_toxic_bomb_xgOomKo8AQzXKzc8aS...
Hey maybe these market blow-ups aren't as stupid as they seem. What if a desperate Federal Government decided to "plant" market failures/blowups in advance of the real thing so they could call the whole thing back?? I mean the precedent has already been set; so if things get crazy on the downside; well we'll just go back and blame it on these "market bugs" that have been occurring. Interesting that no precise conclusion was reached for the ~1000 point meltdown weeks back. Even more interesting that nothing special was done to rectify except set up the 10% move halt.
I even think it's possible the whole GS testimony, etc. was staged and secretly requested by the Feds to satisfy some of the rage out there. Really, nothing serious has come of it and I'm sure GS was willing to cooperate to maintain their hand-in-pocket relationship with the UST.
FWIW, the flash crash happened on Gordon Gekko's birthday (May 6)
APC options MMs musta needed CPR
i think we give a standing O for the AUY market makers. ....I mean, come on....you have 30 to 1 bid ask, AND YOU MOVE THE STOCK DOWN.
that is giving it one for the gipper.....that is doin' it for the Timster.
i think we give a standing O for the AUY market makers. ....I mean, come on....you have 30 to 1 bid ask, AND YOU MOVE THE STOCK DOWN.
that is giving it one for the gipper.....that is doin' it for the Timster.
They should hook the HFT trades up to a wack-a-mole game at a Chucky Cheese's and see if kids hopped up on sugar are fast enough to execute the trades before they're canceled.
Forget about Skynet, we got Homer Simpsons running the desks!
DOH! I pressed the "any key"..!
Sell, Mortimer, Sell!!!!!!
That's some Texas Tea right 'der.
FOX NEWS REPORTS:
DOW 129.65 | NAS 34.28 | S&P 13.82(Data as of 2010-07-06 11:31 EDT) Trading Briefly Halted on Anadarko's Stock Jul 06, 2010 11:16 AM EDT
Shares of Anadarko Petroleum (APC) were briefly halted Tuesday morning pending news before trading resumed minutes later without an explanation for the halt.
Anadarko, which was involved in the BP (BP) oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, did not release a statement during the halt. Representatives from Anadarko and the New York Stock Exchange did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There didn't appear to be any steep price fluctuations in Anadarko's stock that would have triggered new NYSE circuit breakers, similar to those used recently on Washington Post Co. (WPO) and Citigroup (C). Anadarko's shares were up 2.81% to $39.14 before they were halted. The stock was up 2.73% to $39.11 in recent trading.
The Woodlands, Texas.-based Anadarko owns a 25% stake in BP's Macondo project, which was the site of the oil rig explosion in April that caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The company's stock has tumbled in the wake of the disaster, losing about half of its market value over that timeframe.
More EnergySo in other words...ZH is far better at reporting than a multi-million$ network. One more peice of evidence that the MSM is completely controlled and mainstream journalism is dead.
Kudos again to ZH.
exactly
Absolutely sickening. I fear for the day they start clamping down on "uncooperative" websites.
When they do things like that we should take that as a sign of remarkable weakness in that area and kick them there again twice as hard.
Start? ZH had to seek exile from blogspot.com, a year or so ago, due to too many take down notices...
Drudge's headline this AM is:
Sure this is related to TSA equip and policy but it is a precedent (at least in terms of conditioning) AND the lack of clear definition for 'controversial' is rather, uhhh, interesting...
I wonder how ZH will measure up...
This trade was reported on PSE (ARCA). These types of mistakes happen all the time (though usually on CBO, not ARCA). It's clearly erroneous, happened outside the market, and didn't disrupt trading at all. What a joke that the circuit breakers get triggered by this.
I'm not sure 'Buy and Hold' is good advise here.
If anyone in our government bureaucracy decides to investigate and finds out that this is one algo computer screwing another algo computer..then the trade needs to stand.
Sick of this bullshit of the financial companies keeping profits but getting the opportunity of negating their losses or shoving off losses onto the taxpayers. No more fucking do-overs.
Buy and hold died in 2008. R.I.P.
It was my fault, guys. I keep screwing up those limit order thingamajobbers.
Sorry.
This surely is the funniest recession i will ever be in ......
Just hang out. It's about to get hilarious.
Not, funny like "ha-ha"...Funny like spoiled milk.
at 19 bid ask to 1 on AUY....the market makers are now backing off......and letting the stock go up 1 penny...
i mean, we're talking Congressional Medal of Financial Honor for this....
35 to 1, and they took it down...
30 to 1....and they took it down...
and entire morning besieged by bids and they TOOK THIS BABY DOWN!!!!!
now that is a wet dream, eh Timmy????? i nominate these guys for a medal.....you can keep it secret like the CIA honors....
but we will understand.
Capitulation, bitchez!
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
oooooo, i don't think so.....we're back to 2x1 bids on AUY...time to take that baby down another ten cents.....
o, now its 3:1......bet they can get a nickel out of this. shorting to go along with the game...
damn it! i was just about to buy more!
It says silver but it looks like Wimbeldon....WTF?
Errm, something's not right.....
And FTSE up over 3 % today, a 35 point rally in 7 minutes at the close and BP has hardly moved....
DavidC
Even some of the normally all-is-well happy faces on CNBC are beginning to look at each other with "WTF" expressions after some of these moves. It's becoming more and more difficult to keep a straight face on the "all-pump-all-day" network.
At least all last year they could keep a somewhat honest looking face, trying to explain the rising market with all that stimulus cash finding its way into the system.
Now, the system is broke again. ALL leading indicators are going down, no upside anywhere and the pumpers have to keep talking up the market.
Gentlemen, the casino is officially open again. Place your bets. You may loose all, you may win big but you certainly will be entertained.
Just understand, you play at your own risk.
This James Altucher has got to be one of the biggest clowns my ears ever had to endure. Creative ideas he says to boost the economy "The Fed Should Buy S&P Futures"
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/james-altucher%27s-three-creative-w...^DJI,^GSPC,XRT,XHB,HRB,INTU,TLT&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=
I barely know how to respond to this except to say 1) They already are and 2) This guy probably owns so much stock on these sole basis of government intervention that he is exactly the kind of person who needs to be wiped out of this market for eternity in order to allow rationale to return.
i think what i enjoy most about this market is that not only are the peasants supposed to take stocks off the banks' hands at this point, but...
we're supposed to buy the "right stocks". Note that they are slaughtering anything of actual real value this morning, gold, silver, etc.....
and what is rising?
by the way, my personal favorite "riser" is JNY...with over 15% of the population now officially admitted as unemployed....
well, i think women need a whole lot more expensive business suits, don't you? growth market and all....
The "PPT" is now openly discussed by the main strem media and commentators. Per your link........
"Friday's jobs data capped a string of disappointing reports pointing to a U.S. economy that's rapidly losing altitude. To prevent any further descent from the highs of the stimulus-fueled recovery of 2009, James Altucher proposes three creative ways to boost the economy:
Unleash the 'PPT': The Fed should regularly buy S&P 500 futures before the open, at midday and near the close, when it'll get the most bang for its buck, Altucher says. "They've been spending a $1 trillion [plus] in the mortgage market," he notes. "Now I'm saying, spend 1% in the stock market. It's the same idea. Let's do it where it impacts people the most - where it impacts Main Street."
The more I think about it, the more I come to the realization that so many people simply DESERVE what's coming their way.
+1
Do they ever and some. And I hate to apply that reasoning to the masses however it is time for them to take an interest in how the economy and politics truly work and it is always against them. All those perceived hand me outs they are receiving and the earmarks used to buy votes to grandstand to a country or district in the long run does the recipients far more damage than they understand.
Yes your Senator was able to secure 10 billion in "handouts" to build a Jenga museum and Buffalo Wings Wild however when the 10 billion dries up you are still left with a banking system designed to steal your money through monoplistic powers and political cover from the politicians elected to protect you. In place the 10 billion is added to the debt pile, your dollar is diluted, your savings rate is 0% and your jobs are slowly sent to Asia. All the while we step on the accelerator to the date where there is entirely too much debt to add even a dime to the pile and those reliant upon the handouts and tooth fairy always leaving them $100 under their pillow get angry and confused and still believe the government is wealthy when in fact they are incredibly destitute.
Do they deserve it? Maybe. Priority needs to be placed on economic education in this nation so can you blame them if those who exploit them work to dumb the masses down with junk food for the brain? Sadly most will not understand when it all ends and why but the goods news is if you just trade in a little more of your liberties the government will take care of you a little longer. Just a few liberties here and there folks nothing to see here.
@CD
This is the very definition of asshat. The fact that this guy equates propping up equity markets in the face of declining economic fundamentals is yet another symptom of the FIRE industry consuming the wealth of this great country. If I ever meet this nappy headed freak on the street, he's going to an education in the reality he so callously ignores.
Thought the same thing. Another moron or talking his book. Closed out my SDS Fri expecting a big gap up today since they missed Mon. Loading up now, expect 1040 to hold. Love those gaps.
I am expecting a monster ramp job EOD to try to fool everyone into thinking this is a real move. The only purpose of moves like this in the futures is to ensure that if any mutual funds are buying today that they are paying marked up prices and makes the distrubution less noticable.
Every market news announcement should have a mandatory laugh-track after it....at least make this BS mildly entertaining like a 70's sitcom.
agree sheepdog!
and maybe the old dick van dyke show theme music to start it off? that kind of typifies the market.
+10
"What, VBA still implements the Apartment Thread model?"
Sacre bleu!
lol
But remember folks the one market that is NOT manipulated is the Gold/Silver market.
Still doesn't beat the VW squeeze.
"Every market news announcement should have a mandatory laugh-track after it....at least make this BS mildly entertaining like a 70's sitcom."
CNBC needs a live studio audience, and replace SNL with CNBC re runs. That's a "Win-Win" as Jack W. would say in the old days of profitable GE.
i got to say, i am personally enjoying watching the market makers/ computers work over AUY.... the bid has almost consistently been in the range of five/six to one ask all morning.....
and they are dropping the stock. i mean, this is really quite something to watch .... if we had a functioning SEC i guess it would matter....
but, as it is, its just really entertaining watching them. i'm short and watching with insane interest......i mean, if you can spot the cheaters no reason not to take the ride, eh?
Anadarko, BP's GoM drilling partner
between 12/09 and 3/10 Soros unloaded 20K shares APC, but kept 3k
I guess today is just another good day for George. Small change, but it'll give him some spending money
AUY is back in the range of 15 bid to 1 ask.....and dropping again. .. this thing is a poster boy for manipulation in the gold sector....
AUY is back in the range of 15 bid to 1 ask.....and dropping again. .. this thing is a poster boy for manipulation in the gold sector....
I'm noticing a bit of a stutter on your part...Or an echo?
UXG looks to be another gold that the boys are "working"....bid there is also gargantuan versus ask,....and its drooping....
What the F? I had a limit short in at $99,999.98. I'm calling my broker! ;)
that is what's called a "bagholder"
The current administration will to have to destroy records and documents to keep the next administration from investigating...
They must have hit the illusive 100 000 key, you know the one next to the million and billion keys.
What about the poor idiot who thinks he is going to be paying 8 thosuand dollars? And now what? Millions?
How fast did this price go up? Was it fast enough to beat the HFT machines and thier ultra fast decimal fractional buying?
If it can drop fast and demonstrate a rise this fast, the entire market is busted and needs to be unplugged and all trades executed with pencil, ledger pad and rotary phones until this thing gets fix.
Too many fat fingers working keyboards. Time for some well connected dbag to get Congress to require market participants to use their patented X-1000 keyboard with triple sized keys.
Nice!
Stupidity programmed heuristics for the lose!!
Allow me to interrupt the witty reparte with some info I gleaned from the SEC prelim. findings on May 6, 2010 (http://www.sec.gov/sec-cftc-prelimreport.pdf) to help the confused:
Market makers are required to issue quotes for the securities they cover. When they cannot or refuse to carry out their reponsibilities as market maker, they are allowed to issue "stub quotes" that are special values ($0.01 and $100000.00). By convention, these were never meant to be traded, but apparently there is no explicit rule against doing so. In practice, trades for "at the market" (market orders to buy or sell at any price) are made against stub quotes almost every day.
Note that when stop loss orders are triggered, they turn into market orders that can occur at any price.
The exhanges have computers and people constantly weeding out these "erroneous executions", but there is no guarantee that all "erroneous executions" will be cancelled. Such cancellations depend upon thresholds of overall market movement, time of day, recent rate of change of the stock, and market cap of the stock. These rules smell funny since the SEC is focused more on aggregate market behavior than on individual trades.
Market makers presumeably have an incentive to trade on stub quotes since they make out like bandits. The SEC report is silent on whether some or none of these stub trades are allowed to stand; instead, it suggests warning investors that market orders (at any price) are very risky.
The SEC is considering improving this situation by NOT requiring market makers to issue quotes (thus admitting market makers can get the benefits of their unique position without the risks). Alternatively, they are considering the elimination of market orders and stop-loss orders altogether, but this would impact a lot of software, unless they require that all market orders be silently converted to tight ranges.
The "flash crash" phenomenon of positive or negative feedback between markets is related to this because the same smelly rules apply to cleaning up the mess. Since the prices involved are not immediately recognized as stub prices, it is much more likely that erroneous executions will stand uncancelled.
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