3. USD $460 million loss in 45 min! US $210 billion lost in one night!!
World War 3 just about averted!!!
4. When markets opened on 1st Aug at 9:30am, blood-bath happened in 45 min!
On 31st July 2012, Knight deployed a new version of software to Production
The new code re-purposed an obsoleted functionality “power-pegs”
SMARS is its high speed routing system for equity orders
Knight Capital WAS a global financial services firm.
It specialized with it’s high frequency trading algorithms
5. Total, USD $460 min lost.
All this in 45 min!
Knight Capital’s stock fell by over 70%.
It was officially termed as a “technology breakdown”
A manual rollback caused power-peg to being activated on all 8 SMARS!
This caused a major disruption in prices of 148 Companies listed on NYSE.
4 million child execution orders were inadvertently transacted
A technician forgot to copy the new code to one off 8 SMARS server
This activated the old PP, that moved stock prices up/down to verify trading behaviour
19. Even with the world’s best tech, it still takes a human with the right values…
20. “We see ourselves as a technology company,
with a banking license”
“Why every Company Is A Technology Company”
“Every company is a tech company now
(yes, even Blue Apron)”
“Silicon Valley will be competing with us very soon.
We are ready”
21. All Tesla cars have the hardware to be driverless. All we need is software updates!