[SystemSafety] How to loose $460M with some dead code

Derek M Jones derek at knosof.co.uk
Fri Nov 1 21:17:24 CET 2013


All,

I suspect that most members of this list have not been following
the tail of Knight Capital’s rather odd way of loosing $460m via
algorithmic trading.

It turns out to have been caused by some unused/dead code
coming back to life (the technical stuff starts around para 13):
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf

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