Amazon stock reported at -87.24% on Google Finance • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon stock reported at -87.24% on Google Finance

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Post by friedman23 » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

This is a glitch not a flash crash. There is absolutely no volume on Amazon right now. This actually happens all the time .

Re: Amazon stock reported at -87.24% on Google Finance

#12

Post by heydonovan » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/TDAmeritrade/status/882012933181632516

Re: Amazon stock reported at -87.24% on Google Finance

#13

Post by ourmandave » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:39 PM UTC

supercoder wrote: post #4

stanislavb wrote: post #2

How come!?

It was discovered no one actually really used Alexa

That's not true! I use it to reply to Ashley Madison fembots. (It's a vicious circle really.)

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:39 PM UTC

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Post by munificent » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:39 PM UTC

pscsbs wrote: post #3

This appears to be a hack, or data corruption. See NASDAQ's official listing ( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/after-hours ). Several other ticker symbols (AAPL, MSFT, etc.) are also affected. Edit: It appears several tech stocks (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, etc.) have their prices set to 123.47. Definitely pointing to some sort of data corruption.

> all have their prices set to 123.47

Which is what you'd get if the price was 123.456789... and rounded to two decimal places.

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Post by desdiv » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:40 PM UTC

tsyd wrote: post #9

Any EBAY ( https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AEBAY ) went up 254%? No, these are just glitches with Google Finance. It happens once in a while.

Bloomberg[0] is showing the same thing, so if it's a data glitch it's not limited to just Google Finance.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AMZN:US

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Post by avaer » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:40 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #15

pscsbs wrote: post #3

This appears to be a hack, or data corruption. See NASDAQ's official listing ( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/after-hours ). Several other ticker symbols (AAPL, MSFT, etc.) are also affected. Edit: It appears several tech stocks (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, etc.) have their prices set to 123.47. Definitely pointing to some sort of data corruption.

> all have their prices set to 123.47 Which is what you'd get if the price was 123.456789... and rounded to two decimal places.

Plausible, but wouldn't it be 123.46?

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Post by narrator » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:42 PM UTC

I wonder what this is going to do to all the sub-second quant algorithms. Do they have the ability to recover quickly from this kind of data corruption?

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Post by comboy » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

Please change the title instead of flagging this. It may not be a crash but this is newsworthy.

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Post by ulcica » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

Yahoo finance shows similar numbers https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?ql=1&p=AMZN