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The Knight Capital incident isn't unique to HFT firms - any firm that does automated trading can fall foul of similar problems.



It can even happen to manual traders. If you accidentally screw up and run the wrong strategy (e.g. buying Tweeter Inc. when you intended to buy Twitter), you'll very rapidly lose gigantic piles of money.

Losing your money in the stock market != market manipulation.


Yeah, but the "HF" part of "HFT" tends to make an elephant out of a fly.




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