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To: HerbVic who wrote (121349)	10/31/2011 12:22:15 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) of 213182

That's not what happens. When things get goofy out there, the bots dont start an oscillation dance with each other, they go to sleep. Literally. There are control panels with big red buttons on them that disconnect the machines from the data feeds. And they don't get turned back on until things calm down. The fundamental problem here is that we're trying to make markets "safe" for retail, when retail should not have more than lunch money exposure to what is a fundamentally dangerous market. The idea that market action is supposed to be differentiable is one of the most dangerous myths out there. It's not - normal price action is discontinuous in its natural state.

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