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Note that a crash of similar magnitude and duration happened in the 60s, well before computerized trading.


Could you provide a source?


I'm looking... (It isn't the first two places where I thought that I saved it.)


Here's a link discussing the May 1962 equivalent to the flash crash:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395760457527...




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