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Washington Post Stock Up 100%, Triggers Circuit Breaker After Errant Trades 225,000% Above NBBO Fry System
Update: According to Bloomberg, this was yet another mini flash crash, where an errant trade somewhere, somehow caused a massive surge in the price as several trades cross at $900+, a few million percent above where the stock has been trading in forever. The stock has now resumed.
Not sure what reason is just yet. But at least those new circuitbreakers get a workout... to the upside.
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Trading now...
edit: well, block order at 1507 i suppose
Testing 1, 2, 3, testing 1, 2, 3.
OK Mac, it looks good to go. When they installed the flash dasher on May 6th, they reversed the wires and caused it to crash down instead of dash up. We finally traced the problem this morning.
Jezz, ya just can't find good help these days.
Systemic instability... if one were to write a fictional novel about a 'fictitious' market based economy collapsing this would occur near the end of the book... not the beginning.
Thing are ready to get even more unstable I fear. Trade at your own risk.
:>)
Don't worry, be happy. Mac's on the job......now. Never a down day ever again.
Perfect! Thats the correct implementation of the circuit breakers - as long as it goes down too hard too far, cancel all 'erroneous' trades (aka any tick lower) and restart at highs of the day. And of course, only upticks allowed :)
I think they found a way to offset a flash crash now. Whenever that happens now, they can flash dash the markets up in a jiffy.
I just have to wonder if some fool got stuck with a 900/share market order. Picture that E-trade baby, "See, I just bought stock--ooohhh shit!!! No really, I just craped my pants. That was easy".
LOL. I knew there was a logical explanation.
Well damnit. If I can't get an I-Phone 4G, I'm going to buy a damn newspaper!
but how will you play solitaire then? You didn't think about that one did you?!
And I hasten to mention how difficult it is to wrap fresh fish with an I-phone 3G.
<full disclosure: not an I-phone owner. Still waiting for the wave of nostalgia to arrive, and someone produce a rotary-dial cell phone before I buy again.>
"And I hasten to mention how difficult it is to wrap fresh fish with an I-phone 3G."
um - there's an app for that.
noice!
Looks like it went up $12.00 on 5200 volume . Then right back down. Am I missing something?
What the hell are you looking at?
The 5200 was the minutes vol at 1507. Actual print is deleted from TOS (dunno about your broker) but it hit 929.18 high and got stopped right after
Yes I was looking at TOS. Weird they edited it so fast, they didn't edit the ACN chart on May 6th. Anyway thanks for the info.
Check it out on Google finance then if your trade screen does not show it.
I see 766 shares on Arca at 919.18 - 400 at 15:07:30:674, 200 at the same time, and 166 at 15:07:30:684 with 100 shares on ISE and 100 on Nasdaq in between:
15:07:29.696 P - 451.00 100 Reg Trade
15:07:29.700 N - 450.99 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:29.754 P + 451.83 100 Reg Trade
15:07:29.754 P + 451.83 100 Reg Trade
15:07:29.754 P + 451.83 100 Reg Trade
15:07:29.756 N - 451.51 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:29.764 N + 451.86 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:29.780 T - 451.83 100 Reg Trade
15:07:29.806 N + 451.86 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:29.856 T - 451.83 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:29.896 P + 452.51 200 Reg Trade
15:07:30.058 D - 452.35 300 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.088 P + 452.79 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.092 N - 452.77 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.106 P + 453.52 300 Reg Trade
15:07:30.136 N - 452.79 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.146 I + 453.50 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.146 T - 452.77 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.148 P + 453.68 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.160 D - 453.50 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.242 N + 453.52 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.284 P + 453.69 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.298 N - 453.67 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.302 N + 454.43 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.302 P + 454.51 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.306 N + 454.51 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.443 P + 455.12 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.457 Z - 453.67 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.457 T - 453.67 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.457 N + 455.12 200 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.461 N + 455.14 200 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.572 P + 456.91 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.588 P + 457.76 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.592 I + 457.99 200 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.594 T + 458.72 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.618 D - 457.99 500 Reg Trade
15:07:30.660 P - 456.91 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.666 P + 462.84 100 Reg Trade
15:07:30.674 P CXLED + 919.18 400 Reg Trade
15:07:30.674 P CXLED + 919.18 200 Reg Trade
15:07:30.676 T - 462.85 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.678 I - 459.11 100 Intermarket Sweep Order Trade
15:07:30.684 P CXLED + 929.18 166 Reg Trade
"Dave, what are you going to do Dave? I admit I've made some poor decisions lately, but I'm feeling much better now..."
EUR/JPY just fell a bit quick as well.
It's an opex short squeeze. Gunnin' for the year!
Springs are falling off the ol' jalopy.
Yum, yum! Put it in my belly with all the other toxic paper!
Last time I ate tech stock and crapped houses.
This time I'm grinding dookie and crapping gold, bitchez!
Only news I see is that Glenn Beck is attacking a WaPo reviewer.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/06/beck_attacks...
Maybe people figure it will increase sales. Heck, "The Road to Serfdom" went to number one on Amazon after a Beck mention.
"According to Bloomberg, this was yet another mini flash crash, where an errant trade somewhere, somehow caused a massive surge in the price."
Just a system test... nothing to see here... keep buying...
Leo has been a bit MIA today. Must be busy trying to figure out what to do with all the money he made off of Chinese Solar's.
Maybe someone got some inside info on the forthcoming gadget tax.......is flash-melt-up a phrase now too? I would rather it be called tuna-melt-up....
Could it have been staged, just to show that the circuit breakers are working and to try to increase the confidence in the system?
Exactly my thoughts.
If you look at WPO anyway, its a big POS. Nobody trades that thing, 60k ADV is bullshit. Its not like it was 'hammered' by HFT or retail since it doesn't trade enough (thats why owners keep it at those levels instead of s/s btw).
This was probably to show 'hey look the system works'
Cause for a stock to go berzerk over a minuscule order, is total bs.
I know guys who almost exclusively trade BRK.A, BRK.B, SEB, WPO, NVR. People do trade those things. The spread is fat if you can make it and there aren't as many algos in the high dollar, low volume stocks.
Wow, the guys that trade class A of brk must be big ballers!
Look at GOOG, AMZN, AAPL. Notice the difference in vol? You dont fucking daytrade a 66k adv stock without asking for it, the depth of it for anyone trying to make a decent trade would kill you (im not talking a 1 share trade)
Yes, some of them are. 20 shares for 1,000 points is nothing to sneeze at.
I suppose that's possible, but I see it more as another example of the tremors that foretell an eruption.
Hmmm. Interesting
if you were pull something like that why not choose a media property with a price that doesn't move around too much.
Great Shite-Shakespeare dramatic angle for those who only can find time to get news from the LCD in the elevator...
Plausible, no...Memorable? BINGO!
Flash Dash...Flash Crash...these sure do seem to be happening more and more...the market about to pffffzzzzzttt!
The trades will be cancelled. There goes my WOPPO profit. lololololol
Perhaps it was a test to see how far the spread stealing bots will follow a lead. What if it was introduced through a specific channel to see who might be watching to that channel ahead of the public?
Seems like there were three separate trades around 3:07:30pm and shortly thereafter:
All on the Arca electronic crossing network.
My first thought was this was some type of stress test (software design parlance not Timmy's kind)
Please tell me why I even follow the markets?
I don't trade anymore, I don't believe that it is a real market anymore, I don't even believe we have a real government anymore.
I feel like I am trapped in a horrible dream and I can't make myself wake up.
Somewhat like Scrooge when Marley showed up. "There is more of the margarita than the market about you." (or something like that)
Sounds more like Marla than Marley...
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last desperate short squeeze before downtrend resumes?
Flash trading programmes are always testing the waters with low volume trades to provide a probability trade or curve of probabilities.
Since the market is so overburdened with buys and sells, with nobody owning a single stock or having to pay a single penny if the trade goes their way, there would be major opportunities in stock market dogs in a growth markets, but you would need a healthy balance sheet before going after the flash trading bucket shops and massive naked short positions.
Nothing new with these kinds of "jumps" where naked shorting is the rule. If I remember correctly, there were numerous stocks in all exchanges that saw these kinds of jumps just prior to the Nasdaq crash.
What no trades at $999.00?
Maybe the FED was stepping in to support the stock price...they've got lots of cash and more than a passing history with WaPo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Isaac_Meyer
[snip]:
Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American financier, public official, publisher of the Washington Post newspaper. He served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. He was the father of publisher Katharine Graham.
History is a funny thing, especially when you read it...ahhh, the bitter fruits of the seeds of destruction...."You know, I think this thing might come in handy"~ [speculative quote of new proprietor Mr. Meyer]
WaPo, redefining the meaning of beneficial owner? Nah....just another coincidence
EURO bullish warnings mentioned earlier, have strengthened today. Vice versa for the USD index of course.
I have detected EURO buying support for several weeks now.
XAUEUR daily chart gives bearish warnings as of today.
This could be an important development.
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