Friday, August 3, 2012

A $440 Million computer glitch.

Ouch - a bad bit of software cost Knight Capital nearly half a billion when they accidentally sold all the stocks that they had bought the prior day.

As they say, to err is human, but to really screw things up you need a computer.


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