Hank: OT: More on market manipulation: You may recall GS was accused of using "malicious" and "inordinately fast" trading software that was proprietary to GS itself when they filed a complaint that an employee (former) had stolen the code and sold it to another trading firm. GS alleged that he did so illegally and that further .. if the software was to fall into the wrong hands .. the market could be manipulated ..
LOL
The software essentially flashes large orders for only seconds, sometimes minutes .. only to be retracted very quickly .. designed specifically to artificially cause volume/panic ..
Further, it cylces through just about every stock there is every 24 minutes or so .. Excellent tidbits of info like that and much much more can be found here: