Well considering even the people with access to all the data on what happened still don't know exactly what went down, it'd be a little tough for me to prove an

Well considering even the people with access to all the data on what happened still don't know exactly what went down, it'd be a little tough for me to prove anything. What we do know is the only people that were able to make trades were the institutional investors with access to the best (and fastest) tools, HFTs are designed to skim fractions of %s off trades and thus since there was a ton of volatility they would've cleaned up, and really- how could anyone have won but the big boys here? The real losers here that got screwed are ones that couldn't adjust their positions and had stop losses, or people that tried to but were ill-equipped, etc. The institutional investors were (most likely) on top of this, and able to reap the benefits- your Average Joe investor was not, and neither was your grandpa's pension fund. I may not be able to provide proof, but that's because no one (to this point, that we know of) can provide any proof either way. I'm not anti-market, I'm pro free-market, and unfortunately what we have is not a free-market. Oh, and I'll get back to you with that data and evidence once the SEC hands it over to me.