Too Long; Didn't Read
The Markets Are Out of Order: How To #BreakTheCycle. PEAK6's market-wide circuit breakers kicked in to prevent panic selling and rapid market decline. The circuit breaker pattern is widely used in software, just as in exchanges, to reduce harm and allow systems to stabilize. When the markets come back, there is actually a bit of hesitancy that’s different from a normal open. The graphs below show how our feed systems recorded these events with a nice big gap during the 15-minute breaks.