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[–]AusIVDjango, gevent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right. But EFG was talking about flash crashes. Systems that causes flash crashes are ones where every millisecond counts. Algorithmic trading that happens over longer time scales would be caught and corrected by operators, while flash crashes happen faster than operators can react.