It's Official: It's A Broken Market And "Hundreds Of Thousands" of Orders Affected
It will not come as a surprise to too many Zero Hedge readers but we feel a big told-you-so dance coming on again. Via BATS:
- *BATS SAYS 'SYSTEM ISSUE' CAUSED PRICING PROBLEMS OVER 4 YRS:WSJ
- BZX Exchange (10/24/08 - 01/04/13) Average Daily Incidents: 410.1 Total Incidents: 433,039
In simple terms BATS admits that the Reg NMS trading principle of NBBO (National Best Bid or Offer) has failed; meaning the core premise of market structure since 2005 has been massively abused by at least one and likely all exchanges. The bottom-line is that the primary and really only safeguard in the market when HFT was unleashed was never operational and the SEC has had i) no actual supervision over who or what was abusing the NBBO and ii) no way of keeping track of what really happens in the market.
Via BATS:
Dear Member,
Please be advised that BATS has determined that upon an NBBO update on BATS' BYX Exchange, BZX Exchange and BATS Options, there are certain cases where the Matching Engine will allow for a trade through or an execution of a short sale order at a price that is equal to or less than the NBB when a short sale circuit breaker is in effect under Regulation SHO. These cases result from the sequencing of certain required events in the Matching Engine related to re-pricing and sliding orders in response to the NBBO update.
In the first case, a visible order that is posted and has been price slid can execute at a price that trades through another market center's protected quote if that away market center locks the displayed price of the BATS order and then BATS receives another order that crosses the working price of the resting order.
In the second case, the system was programmed to allow non-displayed peg orders to re-price in response to a change in the NBBO prior to sliding previously booked contra-side hidden orders that now cross an away market center. As a result, it is possible that in response to a change in the NBBO, the price of a resting hidden order could be crossing the NBBO momentarily and an execution could occur at that crossing price against a peg order that is re-priced in response to the NBBO change, resulting in a trade through. This particular issue can also result in a short sale order executing at a price that is equal to or less than the NBB while a Regulation SHO circuit breaker is in effect.
These system compliance issues have resulted in the following incidents:
Trade Throughs
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BATS Options
(02/26/10 - 01/04/13)
Average Daily Incidents: 1.4
Total Incidents: 617
BYX Exchange
(10/15/10 - 01/04/13)
Average Daily Incidents: 14.4
Total Incidents: 7,884
BZX Exchange
(10/24/08 - 01/04/13)
Average Daily Incidents: 410.1
Total Incidents: 433,039
Regulation SHO Incidents
====================
BYX Exchange
(02/28/11 - 01/04/13)
Total Incidents: 174
BZX Exchange
(02/28/11 - 01/04/13)
Total Incidents: 3,489
BATS plans to deploy a permanent change to correct the second case on or about January 18, 2013 and the first case on or about January 25, 2013. Correction of the first case must be preceded by a rule filing with the SEC.
Please contact the BATS Trade Desk or your Director of Sales with any questions.
BATS Trade Desk
913.815.7001
tradedesk@bats.com
www.batstrading.com/alerts
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Generally might be termed a "Criminal Enterprise"
Well, to be fair, "All crime begins with politicians."
Wasn't it just last week when several stocks like AAPL, GOOG, etc. were going nuts in the middle of the day? And no one even seemed to care or talk about it after it happened, except here of course. But not one other source hardly even mentioned a pretty big screw up. Seems like it's so common now, no one really cares.
Tyler , keep your eyes on the spinning watch and repeat after me.: "Markets that go up are not broken. Markets that go up are not broken. Markets that go up......
"...the system was programmed to allow non-displayed peg orders to re-price in response to a change in the NBBO prior to sliding previously booked contra-side hidden orders that now cross an away market center."
Wow. I'll never trade another stock again as long as I live.
When you don't know, just mumble some shit
Touche. Things that aren't right must always be explained in complexity. How else to baffle 'em with bullshit and, if need be, later call it disclosure?
The scandal isn't that there's bugs, it's that the "feature list" is untestable and subtly inconsistent with the NBBO. Non-displayed peg orders? Really? WTF.
Require all matching engines to be open-source. Post them to GitHub. Limit order types to a sane minimum. Sorted.
Let me add this to the list of shit that shocks me.
King Obama. check
Jon Corzine grand theft. check
Rule of law which only applies to the "little people" check
New law requiring precious metals transactions be made with something other than cash. check
Broken stock market. check
Ok. Got it.
Muppets,
if you were wondering about the unusual pricing at times there was an explanation.
Too bad there isn't a dam thing you can do about because we already covered ourselves!
- BATS
eh, we muppets can do the (victory) dance, can't we.
Little mercy. Sweet.
8 days left to the next bug
America's and Europe's 21st century answer to 20th century Soviet era propoganda: Potemkin Markets.
...and the 3pm meltups?
"Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense"
The market flush will be orgasmic
When are they gonna announce the markets are manipulated?
Did they just say the markets gonna crash on Jan 18.
At some point the parasite destroys the host and must find another ; is what has evolved in our markets really innovation ? I wonder.... Can the human being slow poke floor personnel bring back the ORIGINAL integrity and ethos to the markets. Doubtful , because Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall , and clearly our markets are broken . Authors Arnuk and Saluzzi are absolutely right about that. The fallout from this evolution could be real messy - especially if it ends up as an us v. them contest.
Wealth flows from access to power more than from hard work or risk taking behavior.
These fukkers are going to be cleaned out by the class action sharks. Good riddance.
On a lighter note, Hasbro is looking to replace a couple of the Monopoly game pieces with updated versions. Maybe ZH could offer them some suggestions as to what those pieces should be.
Monopoly Upgrade
a little metal printing press
nice!
a little metal guillotine.. or gallows?
Corzine "get out of jail" card !
An AR-15.
investment banks and hedge funds, denominated in billions.
utilities can be central banks. prison and go are irs and fed.
Oriental Ave. moved over by Park Place .... Mediterranean Ave. stays put !
Step 1) Cause flash crash
Step2) ???
Step 3) Profit!
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I'm long on beans and rice.
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the only thing unmanilulated yet is the weather ?
... Hardly, they have been trying for a while, somebody here at ZH might be able to shed more light on those efforts.
best to shed your own light on the subject, as people hold pretty polarised opinions. . .
but type "stratospheric aerosol geoengineering" into your favourite search engine, read what you're drawn to - this might get you started.
also, another poster had this up earlier, recommended viewing.
best wishes, stay curious.
OFF TOPIC: Does anyone really believe these numbers out of China?
Tentative CNY Chinese Trade Balance 31.60B 19.70B 19.60BAre you fucking kidding me? The PBoC is talking lowering the RRR and doing reverse repos, and the print is 75% higher!
No.
China is losing the plot in a titanic way.
Chump, 200 day simple moving average (DXY) is the pivot. That girl Orly runs the 5 point pivot (Gartly). She is pretty good on this particular trade.
Don't get lost in the pattern. A reversal is coming,.
I am pretty amazed at Asia buying the USD for the last 6mths. I think it's USDs under the mattress trade.
For me, it's the S&P and Dow reversal. Very tuff trade since the market is heavily geared and the HFTs are supporting the MAs. So it's tight and sideways. The money printer supports need to be tested, i think everyone trading on the earth is wondering when that will happen.
Chump you are not off on your thinking. The $ has been bought during risk on , and NOT been bought "risk off".
The h4 chart need some adjustment. I suspect the Fed. is playing games with liquidity, with Asia and South America on swaps.
Japan is corn holed , and we know it. South korea and Indo-China are going to eat them for lunch!
Traders are perplexed over the $ strength during equity market strength. My guess is that the Fed. want's a really low price for it's next bond purchase.
Do what you want Chump. I'll do what I want. i made money in December. It's just rinse wash $ all over again.
and I'm long bears here
CYN: print / 31.60B vs 19.70B consensus . previous post was 19.60B!
Must read>Is this spike 'one last hoorah' for iron ore?
"and the SEC has had i) no actual supervision over who or what was abusing the NBBO and ii) no way of keeping track of what really happens in the market."
Ask Knight Capital, there are some dead bodies under that pile. Anybody else find it interesting and surprisingly coincidental that Knight's system update just happened to be released on the same day as the NYSE Retail Liquidity Program and was it's true purpose to sniff out the culprit? Also interesting is we haven't had another market wipeout since, makes one go hmmm....
Get back into the market you idiots, the tank continues to be holding room temperature measurements. We're climbing out from the path to recovery you fucking lemmings! Watching panic ensue one popcorn puff at one time.
/sarc
bullish
I could have a field day rewriting that monstrosity of opacity and jargon and perhaps I will.
Have at it Billy-7. You have the gift of " artistic-realization"