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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (134123)	6/9/2017 1:42:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217580

Thanks for the information on Knight Securities and their short blunder and algorithm trading software fault. I hadn't thought of it before, but I now realize that just as computer trading software conducts Flash Crash war games to duel with cyber competitors and regular humans, hunting margin calls, fearful hands, stop loss orders, and maybe even precipitating a general panic, they must be doing the same on upward peaks such as can result from a well orchestrated short squeeze, overloaded options and what have you. Maybe we're watching a short massacre in which case the trading computers will keep squeezing until they calculate it's time to bail out and start selling flat out taking TSLA back to earth, maybe even over-running into a flash crash to see if irrational exuberance got too good a grip and seeing if margin calls, stop loss orders and general panic stampede gives a double opportunity. Those short at $200 and $250 must be getting nausea if not compulsory short covering. Mqurice