How fast can you trade;

On August 1, 2012, starting at market open (9:30 EDT),  many NYSE stocks had extremely high trade rates: several sustaining over 100 trades per second.

Nanex monitors have gone crazy! 

Zooming in to a 1 millisecond interval chart, we can see one second of data which shows 39 trades.

A 25 millisecond interval chart of Nokia (NOK) showing the same pattern as above.

That day the Knight Capital Group trading firm said it lost $461.1 million in 30 minutes when its trading software went kablooey.                                            

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3522.html

Well,  this is the definition of HFTGW High Frequency Trading Gone WRONG.

or DDHFT Drunk Deer's High Frequency Trading