gee think it's *obvious* to the *dolts* >> yet .. snicker
btw lest anyone misconstrue .. dolts = sec
To put the trading on August 1st into perspective, during the first 45 minutes of trading for the prior three trading days in the 140 stocks the number of trades, averaged 481 thousand. The number of trades and trade volume on August 1st indicates the trade execution could not have been done by human input, but were instead computers selling into Knight’s explosive trading.
In the 131 stocks examined, the dollar value traded per minute was $341 million during the 46-minute period. In comparison, Knight’s total net capital was less than $300 million as of June 30, 2012.
Does the current reporting system identify massive short selling in high frequency trading systems in general?
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10/5/07 -- there are no coincidences here ... oh and like many other longs .. not selling at this level --