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Normally trades are undone or amended in price if they are executed far away (say 10%+) from what is determined to be reasonable market prices. And when amended
by dmurray 3y ago
Normally trades are undone or amended in price if they are executed far away (say 10%+) from what is determined to be reasonable market prices. And when amended, they get amended to a price that's still in the same direction, so the market taker still loses a little bit compared to the fair price.
KCG traded in such liquid instruments and in such a way that it didn't move the market that much. They lost a hundred dollars a trade on 4 million trades.
The article says some stocks were moved by more than 10%, but as I recall that was a small fraction of them.
- mlrtime 3y agoPedantic: Technically KCG didn't exist yet. NITE, aka Knight Capital Group lost ~$460 million. Getco bought NITE forming KCG (Beating out Virtu's bid which later purchased KCG) and now is called Virtu Financial (VIRT).