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A transaction fee designed to slow down frenetic activity and protect against «flash crashes» and glitches is imposed on intra-day trades.

This article is an attempt to comment on the Wall Street Journal article on the SEC's effort to create the Consolidated Audit Trail [CAT], in an effort to prevent future «flash crashes,» like the one we had five years ago.

Mini Flash Crashes are still occurring routinely with individual stocks, a sign some of the problems that contributed to the short - circuiting of the markets more than a year ago are still happening.

Still, indexes closed well above their lows as did many blue chip stocks like Apple, GE and JP Morgan which suffered early trading flash crashes.

Even though, price spikes and flash crashes don't happen often, a market order offers no protection from these big price swings.

Here are two major flash crashes that occurred in 2015.

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I was at the managed futures association conference as well as the Global Grain in which I sat on a panel regarding commodity trading advisors affecting markets & flash crashes.

A strange feature of high - speed trading could be used to create an early - warning system of future «flash crashes» in stocks

But they are also a serious problem, leading to mysterious «flash crashes» on the world's financial markets.

The digital currency on the other hand relatively stabilized in January at around $ 800 but has since experienced flash crashes so far this month.

«The crypto markets have experienced several flash crashes over the past few years but we do believe there has been some overvaluation in the market, particularly over recent months,» said Jamie Burke, chief executive officer at venture capital firm Outlier Ventures.

He opines that when you witness episodes such as the «flash crashes» of recent years, it is highly probable you are observing the future.

From DDoS attacks to instigating flash crashes and from malware to theft, there are many, many factors to consider.

First we calculate the number of mini flash crashes in the three - minute window between 9:30 — 9:33 on the day of the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash.

It is also theoretically more appropriate as Demos et al. [22] showed the distribution of mini flash crashes is not normal, and a Poisson distribution would falsely assume that mini flash crashes are independent events.

For instance, twelve of the thirteen mini flash crashes during the test window occurred in the sixty seconds between 9:30 and 9:31.

Still, after accounting for the possibilities of some specific equities experiencing a disproportionate share of mini flash crashes, and variations in trading activity creating more opportunities for mini flash crashes to occur, the evidence continues to suggest that an abnormal level of instability could have been detected in the U.S. equity market during the test window on October 15, 2014.

The tangled nature of financial markets results in this paper only being able to make a strong, supported argument of mini flash crashes playing a contributory role.

In addition, as Golub et al. [21] showed, mini flash crashes produce negative externalities of reducing market liquidity.

In fact, many market participants have stopped tracking mini flash crashes because they occur «so frequently» [19].

In the three - minute window on October 15, 2014 — henceforth referred to as the test window — we find thirteen mini flash crashes.

Furthermore, there has not been a substantial amount of strong evidence for mini flash crashes producing negative externalities.

The number of mini flash crashes in the test window is compared to two control periods.

Regulators can implement policies to monitor mini flash crashes proactively and, among other preemptive actions, limit mass liquidity flights from one market to the U.S. Treasury bond market during instances of heightened instability.

At the same time, investors can take it upon themselves to be proactive about tracking mini flash crashes in equity markets, and to integrate technical safeguards to moderate cross-market flight to safety, when instances of abnormal instability arise.

More importantly, it could also inspire study in and be part of a larger collection of evidence to support the predictive and contributory effects of mini flash crashes on larger flash crashes or on market crashes more broadly.

However, despite the increase in the number of trades executed, the test window still experienced more mini flash crashes on a normalized scale than any other 9:30 — 9:33 window during Control Period 1.

In this article we find a statistically significant increase in the number of mini flash crashes in equity markets in the moments leading up to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash.

Mini flash crashes are intrinsically both signals and actualizations of market instability.

In a study of 5,140 crashes during four months in 2008 and 2010, Golub et al. [21] found that mini flash crashes increase transaction costs through the «detrimental impact [mini flash crashes have] on the Exchange Spread and NBBO [National Best Bid and Offer] Spread.»

3,162 windows, or 81 % of windows, experienced zero mini flash crashes.

Dugast & Foucault [14] agreed: they claimed that machine - generated decision making increases the likelihood of price reversals, and propose that the frequency of mini flash crashes will increase as the cost of trading on fast - information shrinks, or as access to machine - generated decision making grows.

In this case mini flash crashes could be added to the already diverse set of factors linked to market crashes such as economic freedom [26], transparency [27], and differences of opinion amongst investors [28].

Furthermore, addressing the causes of mini flash crashes would also allow for actions to be taken to prevent mini flash crashes from occurring.

According to the causal possibility that we described in the Background section, it is likely that mini flash crashes played a contributory role in the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash.

The number of unique equities that experienced mini flash crashes during the test window is 2.2 times greater than the greatest number of unique equities that experienced mini flash crashes during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window.

There is not a single three - minute window during Control Period 2 that experienced more than five mini flash crashes, whereas the test window experienced thirteen mini flash crashes.

The objective of this study is to determine whether there was a statistically significant change between the number of mini flash crashes during the three - minute window before the start of the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash compared to other windows of the same duration.

Future analysis done in relation to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash should be done on mini flash crashes in other U.S. markets, especially on mini flash crashes in derivatives markets (since derivative markets exhibit more cross-market interconnectedness than other markets), and on mini flash crashes on the other public stock exchanges.

Next, we calculate the number of mini flash crashes in Control Period 1, the three - minute windows between 9:30 — 9:33 each weekday during the 10 weekdays preceding October 15, 2014.

The number of mini flash crashes during the 9:30 — 9:33 window during the control period ranges from zero mini flash crashes on October 3, to five mini flash crashes on October 8 and October 14.

Third, the argument that mini flash crashes played a contributory role could benefit in the future from supplementary analysis, such as parallel analysis of liquidity levels that was time - aligned with the increase in mini flash crashes.

This repeated counting is not an issue, since the objective of the analysis is to measure the number of mini flash crashes in the test window against the number of mini flash crashes in each window of similar duration during the control period.

The number of mini flash crashes during the test window on Oct. 15 is 2.6 times greater than the greatest number of mini flash crashes experienced during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window.

The general importance of reducing causal uncertainty surrounding other historic flash crashes is similar to the importance of reducing causal uncertainty surrounding the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash: causal uncertainty threatens to erode trust in markets and impedes action to prevent similar events from occurring in the future.

The statistically significant increase in the number of mini flash crashes in the moments leading up to the 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash is consistent with the idea that mini flash crashes may have predicted and contributed to an ensuing larger flash crash.

In this section, we provide background and motivation for study of flash crashes, the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash, mini flash crashes, and the possible relationship between the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash and mini flash crashes.

The first comparison is to the number of mini flash crashes in the same time window of 9:30 — 9:33 during the ten weekdays preceding October 15.

Of course, detecting an increase in the number of mini flash crashes in stock markets prior to the start of a subsequent larger flash crash would show that mini flash crashes could have helped predict a larger flash crash, like tremors before an earthquake.