I admit it, stuff like this keeps me up at nights. http://wallstreetandtech.com/asset-management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227001067&pgno=1
This statement from the article is obviously untrue. The party most associated with the error is Infinium CEO and co-founder Charles Whitman. It's a blatant cover-up that engineers and developers quit or were fired. Infinium had inadequate controls in place, and that is always management's fault.
Putting in a trap to detect sustained abnormally high freq order generation (which is indicative of an app locked in a loop) is really reeeeeeeally basic stuff. I am staggered...