The Latest Algo Gone Wild: British Pound Gets Rocked After Improper Sell Order

Rumour this morning's GBP/USD spike was do to an algorithmic model gone wild -- trying to sell $3bn instead of $3m. Whoops.
about 4 hours ago via web
 
Algos putting 3 extra zeros in an order ??? Sorry, but that's the signature of a manual error.

"Or something like that".
 
Algos gone wild can have cascading effects on stop orders, triggering other algos to send orders or can throw 1000s of orders when there is a problem in their logic/ a scenario that was forgotten initially in the programming , but they don't put extra zeros in numbers.

The journalist doesn't have a single clue what caused it, but "it must be algo trading, they continually talk about it on news"...LOL
 
The name of the bank in question starts with an 'R', I'm told... Apparently, they pulled the plug on the machine when it got filled in arnd 400 mil.
 
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