The Flash Crash: The Impact of High Frequency Trading on an Electronic Market
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- 1 January 2011
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We study intraday market intermediation in an electronic market before and during a period of large and temporary selling pressure. On May 6, 2010, U.S. financial markets experienced a systemic intraday event - the Flash Crash - where a large automated selling program was rapidly executed in the E-mini S&P 500 stock index futures market. Using audit trail transaction-level data for the E-mini on May 6 and the previous three days, we find that the trading pattern of the most active nondesignated intraday intermediaries (classified as High Frequency Traders) did not change when prices fell during the Flash Crash.Keywords
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