I just finished Chapter 11....about the Flash Crash.
Bottomline:
Totally amazing how stupid the SEC is....especially Mary Shapiro.
She is one SFC (stupid..fu... you get the rest)
It's now apparent, especially post-Madoff.....that this gov't entity is totally about politics, not markets.
Nothing was mentioned about the CME's role in all of this....how they "forgot" to cap orders by FIRM, not just by trader.
It's obvious now that Waddell and Reed was aware of this "loophole" and took full advantage of it.
It almost appears as though the CME Group "paid-off" the SEC to look elsewhere.....into high frequency trading firms who were innocent in this case.
The CME was looking for a scapegoat.....of course.
Is this entity powerful ?
What a stupid question....