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Fixing the quotes to be timestamped properly seems to be a much simpler fix than relying on additional circuit breaker logic.


While time stamping solves the problem of inconsistent quotes, it does not do anything against bogus trades or somebody accidentally adding an extra 0 when typing in their data.

A circuit breaker would prevent the absolute free-fall that happened during the flash crash. At that stage, nobody knew what the "real" price of a stock was and everybody was guessing, the algos could not handle the situation. If a circuit breaker was triggered, it would lead to a trading halt on the stock and an auction to set the price.

Time stamping quotes solves system errors, but not mistrades or market panic.




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