Saturday, May 15, 2010
Waddell Trade Sparked FlashCrash, Gensler Says
Testimony from Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Gary Gensler suggests that the mystery plunge that vaporized $1 trillion may have started with a Waddell & Reed Financial e-mini trade.
It was a hedging transaction. Guess the rest of the world took the other end after other bigger firms jumped on the selling bandwagon.
Source: Blogging Stocks
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