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Why crowds aren’t always wise: Lessons from mini-flash crashes on Wall Street

  • Written by Alexander Munk, Ph.D. Candidate in Mathetmatics, University of Michigan

Blink. About 300 milliseconds just passed, the same time required for a lightning bolt to travel 100,000 feet, a satellite to fly two miles or a stock price to swing from US$10 to $0.0001 and back.

Wait, what?

Indeed, that actually happened to the shares of the software company Qualys a few years ago. Similar mini-flash crashes involving...

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