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[dan at geer.org]

Cubed writes:
 | Totally. Also, to see more evidence of these interactions, see the last
 | several flash crashes in the US stock markets. What's happening in
 | several of those situations is algos from competing brokerages
 | producing extreme unexpected results. Market crashes, pull the plug,
 | fix the algo or introduce some "rule". Rules being, IMO often
 | just a band-aid for not fixing the code and admitting it was technology
 | that ran away from them.


See "When Robots Collude"
uk.businessinsider.com/robots-colluding-to-manipulate-markets-2015-4

gist: when algorithms learn to defraud, what does LE do?


--dan