{"id":5604,"date":"2012-08-07T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2012-08-07T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:27:46","slug":"accidental-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/accidental-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/02\/knight-capital-says-trading-mishap-cost-it-440-million\/?pagewanted=print\">Nathaniel Popper<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/archive\/2012\/08\/index.shtml\">Andy Baio<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/02\/knight-capital-says-trading-mishap-cost-it-440-million\/?pagewanted=print\"><p>The Knight Capital Group announced on Thursday that it lost $440 million when it sold all the stocks it accidentally bought Wednesday morning because a computer glitch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanex.net\/aqck2\/3525.html\">Nanex Research<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.nanex.net\/aqck2\/3525.html\"><p>When the time comes to deploy the new market making software, which is likely handled by a different group, the Tester is accidentally included in the release package and started on NYSE&rsquo;s live system. On the morning of August 1st, the Tester is ready to do its job: test market making software. Except this time it&rsquo;s no longer in the lab, it&rsquo;s running on NYSE&rsquo;s live system. And it&rsquo;s about to test any market making software running, not just Knights. With real orders and real dollars. And it won&rsquo;t tell anyone about it, because that&rsquo;s not its function.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Popper (via Andy Baio): The Knight Capital Group announced on Thursday that it lost $440 million when it sold all the stocks it accidentally bought Wednesday morning because a computer glitch. Nanex Research: When the time comes to deploy the new market making software, which is likely handled by a different group, the Tester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}