Do you remember the infamous "Flash Crash" that happened almost 15 years ago?

I remember driving around on my lunch break listening to it on the radio pissed off I wasn't at the office in front of my computer

Was this when someone hacked the AP Twitter account and posted there was an explosion at the WH and Obama was injured?

Or was that a different flash crash

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It was a wild half hour or so.

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It was indeed. Crazy! At that time we were still handling everything under roof. We'd just reaccumulated a decent cash position w/ Cap Gains following the Feb-Mar 09 escapade. I was at the hospital. When the crash happened, MsNC, to her credit, tried to push a large amount of cash in on limit orders. Only ended up bagging about 40% of those. Still quite a haul, but TD Ameritrade was slow. Quite a story when I got home that night .... totally unaware.

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Was this when someone hacked the AP Twitter account and posted there was an explosion at the WH and Obama was injured?

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I think that was the crash in 2013.

Sucks when your SL gets gapped over because no one was buying at your price .

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When the crash happened, MsNC, to her credit, tried to push a large amount of cash in on limit orders. Only ended up bagging about 40% of those. Still quite a haul, but TD Ameritrade was slow. Quite a story when I got home that night .... totally unaware.

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What does/did your wife do that she was aware and able to place a bunch of limit orders during the 36 minutes of the flash crash?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding and you had some optimistic GTC limit orders that you had placed prior to the crash, but the way you’re telling the story sounds almost unbelievable.

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yes, a 36 year old man with autism who worked from his parents home as a trader cause the second biggest intraday point decline in the Dow

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He was never blamed for the entire thing. He wasn’t even arrested until 2015. There were multiple reports blaming HFT, algos, etc before he even came up. The SEC report itself never even mentioned him.

His trading came up later and was found to have exacerbated the problem. This thread has a little revisionist history.

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What does/did your wife do that she was aware and able to place a bunch of limit orders during the 36 minutes of the flash crash?

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She trades stocks. Summa Cum Laude Accounting/Finance. Eventually left the office to WFH managing our accounts. So to answer your question, that's what she does.

The day of the crash, she had CNBC on per the norm, and was in the office, at the computer, lining up a couple of orders when the thing hit. Those orders went through. Nothing else did. Makes it sound like we're a pair of day-traders. We aren't. But just the way it happened that day.

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She trades stocks. Summa Cum Laude Accounting/Finance. Eventually left the office to WFH managing our accounts. So to answer your question, that's what she does.

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Sounds like she should be on this board, not you baw

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On April 21, 2015, nearly five years after the incident, the U.S. Department of Justice laid 22 criminal counts, including fraud and market manipulation, against Navinder Singh Sarao, a British financial trader. Among the charges included was the use of spoofing algorithms; just prior to the flash crash, he placed orders for thousands of E-mini S&P 500 stock index futures contracts which he planned on canceling later.[11] These orders amounting to about "$200 million worth of bets that the market would fall" were "replaced or modified 19,000 times" before they were canceled.[11] Spoofing, layering, and front running are now banned.[4]

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I'd forgotten about that. Where have the years gone?From LSURUSSIANS link. 19000 times.
That high functioning autism is something else.