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PhantomGremlin on June 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A high-frequency trading model using Interactive B...

It's good that you lead with risk as #1. You know this, but many don't follow so closely. So here's a Wiki entry of a recent spectacular failure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group

The first sentence:

   The Knight Capital Group was an American
   global financial services firm

The key word is: was

toomuchtodo on June 10, 2015 [–]

As an infrastructure engineer doing DevOps currently, I use Knight Capital Group frequently as an example as why its important to always be in control of your application's environment.

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