On May 6, 2010, advanced algorithmic trading bots turned a routine afternoon on Wall Street into a historic “Flash Crash,” wiping out nearly $1 trillion in market value in under twenty minutes. In this in-depth VigilAI deep dive, we break down:
The rise of high-frequency trading and how AI-driven bots hunt micro-arbitrage opportunities in milliseconds
The cascade effect: why one firm’s rapid sell program sparked a chain reaction of automated sell orders
Circuit breakers to the rescue: how exchange-level safeguards halted individual securities and prevented an even deeper plunge
Regulatory reforms that reshaped market structure—limit up/limit down rules, kill switches, and minimum resting times
Expert insights on designing robust AI risk controls and keeping humans firmly in the loop
Modern parallels in crypto flash crashes and DeFi exploits, and what every trader and technologist needs to know
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