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Flash Crash 2010 : One Trader in a Bedroom Erased $1 Trillion in 36 Minutes │EP34 T1
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On May 6th, 2010, the Dow Jones fell 998 points in thirty-six minutes. One trillion dollars in market capitalization disappeared. Procter and Gamble lost sixty percent in four minutes. Then, almost all of it came back. The SEC spent five months investigating. The initial explanation held for five years. The real answer was in a semi-detached house in Hounslow,
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West London — where Navinder Sarao had been running a spoofing operation from a home internet connection, generating $40 million, and contributing to the conditions that briefly broke the most liquid market in the world. This episode dissects the Flash Crash of 2010, the market microstructure spoofing mechanism, and the algorithmic liquidity illusion that turned fabricated order flow into a trillion-dollar market event. Flash Crash. Navinder Sarao. Spoofing. High-frequency trading. Market microstructure. E-mini S&P 500. Algorithmic trading. CME. Financial Forensics Labs — Every collapse has a pattern. We dissect it. Layer by layer.