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US stock exchanges have said that they’ve figured out how to help stop technical trading glitches, following orders from regulators to come up with new rules after trading on the NASDAQ ground to a halt for three hours in August. Market operators including NYSE Euronext and NASDAQ OMX said they had agreed on certain proposals …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    How about...

    How about taking the same route as the gaming industry... ban all bots !

    Every trade should be done by a human being... and no high frequency trading allowed at all...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: How about...

      Nah, just change the rules so that if they buy 90k shares of something 'by mistake' that they still have to pay for it.

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  2. i like crisps
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    Clever Maths...

    ...didn't know there was an Algorithm for Greed.

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  3. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Won't work.

    Human greed (which is what caused those failures) will always find a way.

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