These Charts Show How Fast Traders React To Carl Icahn Tweets

http://www.businessinsider.com/traders-reactions-to-icahn-tweets-2013-8?sf16439030=1

 

welcome to the world of hft.

 

Apples new product will be named the iC*nt

 

Amazing how when 10,000 nitwits do the same thing the stock moves.

Like maggic

 

Funny Icahn was talking up aapl when nasdaq went tits up.

 

thought his tweet came AFTER the halt.

 

1) More likely, it was only a handful of "digital reading" algorithms. :eek:
2) How is "this" any different than the "CNBC Effect" of the 1990's?