Comment by keyle

Reading stories like this makes me wonder why I don't have a long term trade in place for a low amount and hope to fish a good one during a flash crash.

Seen them on the stock market too. Back in my day I wrote a few trading bots, they never went anywhere positive after about a week of profit.

Seems to me now that the smartest robo-trader algorithm is...

    10 wait for human mistake...
    20 goto 10