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To: E_K_S who wrote (55980)	8/29/2015 8:48:31 AM
From: Spekulatius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78751

I don't think that the Monday morning sell off was caused by HFT trading, this was retail and institutional owners panicking and creating some liquidity dislocations. I believe that professional traders and probably HFT traders took advantage of this and got some of the really whacky trades (like JPM at $50), because these were hard (but not impossible) to get for us. I had quite a few limit orders open in selected stocks, but those either did not have whacky trades or I did not get fills.