Flash Crash Trader Sarao Warned About Illegal Spoofing Activities, Apparently Acknowledges Wrongdoing in Emails

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Accused “flash crash” trader Navinder Singh Sarao was hit hard with a federal court indictment in Chicago Thursday that, based on emails sent between Sarao and his computer programmer, leave little for the imagination. Accused “spoofer” Sarao acknowledges attempts to move markets In the indictment prosecutors point to a Jan. 26, 2009 email where Sarao told an unnamed computer programmer designing his high frequency trading system that we “now need to make it workable in terms of me moving the market like we discussed.” Sarao is accused of “spoofing” the S&P 500 futures on May 6, 2010, which exasperated the “flash…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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