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To: Real Man who wrote (405461)5/22/2010 1:42:59 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436259
 
I was thinking that whatever caused the Flash Crash was some sort of outlier (a fat finger, whatever) that gummed up the Monte Carlo stuff on which the robots are presumably based.

If this is true, the robots cannot handle outliers and they should be banned.

I know, I know, fat chance.