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The flash crash: high-frequency trading in an electronic market

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Kirilenko, A 
Kyle, AS 
Samadi, M 
Tuzun, T 

Abstract

© 2017 the American Finance Association We study intraday market intermediation in an electronic market before and during a period of large and temporary selling pressure. On May 6, 2010, U.S. financial markets experienced a systemic intraday event—the Flash Crash—where a large automated selling program was rapidly executed in the E-mini S&P 500 stock index futures market. Using audit trail transaction-level data for the E-mini on May 6 and the previous three days, we find that the trading pattern of the most active nondesignated intraday intermediaries (classified as High-Frequency Traders) did not change when prices fell during the Flash Crash.

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Keywords

38 Economics, 3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 3801 Applied Economics, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Journal Title

The Journal of Finance

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Journal ISSN

0022-1082
1540-6261

Volume Title

72

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

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