💀 NordFX | Market Autopsy: The Flash Crash of 2010 — When Liquidity Vanished in Minutes May 6, 2010. 2:32 PM. A perfectly ordinary Thursday afternoon. Then, in 36 minutes, the Dow Jones lost nearly 1,000 points and roughly $1 trillion in market value vanished. Then it came back. Almost like nothing happened. Almost. 🔪 What happened? Algorithms started selling. Other algorithms saw the selling — and sold too. Liquidity, the invisible glue of every market, simply disappeared. Some blue-chip stocks briefly traded at a penny. One traded at $100,000. The market lost its mind and found it again in under an hour. The man eventually blamed? A lone trader named Navinder Singh Sarao — operating from his parents' house in suburban London. Using a spoofing program, he flooded the order book with fake sell orders, then cancelled them to buy cheaper. He made $40 million. The market lost a trillion. Regulators took five years to notice. 📊 Why this matters RIGHT NOW Today is NFP Friday — historically the single most volatility-prone hour of the trading month. Markets expect around 85K new jobs for May, unemployment at 4.3%, wages up 0.3%. A big surprise either way can trigger sharp, algo-driven moves in milliseconds. When liquidity thins and machines start talking to each other instead of the market — you know the rest. ⚠️ Three lessons that still hold — Stop-losses aren't optional. Flash moves don't wait for decisions. — Thin liquidity amplifies everything — spreads, slippage, fills. — Algorithms don't panic. But they do stampede. ✔️ At NordFX, you get the tools to stay in control when the market isn't — tight spreads, fast execution, and risk management built for exactly these moments. 👉 Open your account: 🔗 https://my.nordfx.com/en/regis... #MarketAutopsy #NordFX #FlashCrash #NFP #AlgoTrading #Liquidity #StopLoss #ForexTrading