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As Tribune Co. and Google Inc. pointed fingers at each other over the glitch that cratered UAL Corp.'s stock Monday, blame spread to the computers that robotically troll the Web for news stories and execute stock trades automatically
charlesdwright said:This is what happens when you remove human judgment from market-making.
Don't you mean trading, not market making?
The reference to market-making came about from a similar experience in EMLX in the summer of 2000, but the argument was about replacing the market-maker and specialist system with electronic order-matching. Tangential, I concede, and making the connection would take more than I want to post about it at the moment...
You have raised more questions than you have answered... I hope to hear more about this at some point.