NASDAQ is broken

Quote from Bowgett:

I am hedging my positions using futures. CME is open for business...

i'm market neutral.everything is hedged already,but the margin..
 
Quote from Trader.Fighter:

The drama the drama!

Business as usual in CME, SPY/DIA/IWM etc no panic.

sorry for a stupid question,but i'm curious-how the hell they were trading those futures or index etf's without data for underlying securities?
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324619504579028873794227410.html?site=mktw

Thursday's problem is the latest in a string of technology-related mishaps affecting exchanges and brokers as markets over the past two decades have migrated to electronic systems. System problems marred Nasdaq OMX's rollout of the Facebook Inc. initial public offering last year, costing Wall Street firms approximately $500 million in trading losses.

Earlier this week, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. flooded U.S. stock-options markets with erroneous orders, most of which were later canceled.




Best line was: Société Générale. "If we want to trade Apple, we can't."


BUllish.
 
Quote from Bob111:

sorry for a stupid question,but i'm curious-how the hell they were trading those futures or index etf's without data for underlying securities?

It's in a tight range, some of the underlying instruments are not Nasdaq based so there's some index arbitrage still even with the Nasdaq securities down.
 
Quote from Trader.Fighter:

It's in a tight range, some of the underlying instruments are not Nasdaq based so there's some index arbitrage still even with the Nasdaq securities down.

i wouldn't call it a tight range. IWM moved at least 0.5% back and forth since those problems.
 
Quote from Bob111:

i wouldn't call it a tight range. IWM moved at least 0.5% back and forth since those problems.

IWM is notorious for having the highest ATR of them, but applied to dia or spy, not a big deal; but ya some trading.
 
Quote from Trader.Fighter:

It's in a tight range, some of the underlying instruments are not Nasdaq based so there's some index arbitrage still even with the Nasdaq securities down.

There is absolutely no cash-futures arbitrage occurring during this halt.
 
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