Object Lesson: Deployment Failure or Something More Systemic?

Logo for Now-Defunct Knight Capital Group

http://bit.ly/1OvBEt3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group

At its peak, the firm employed 1,400 employees.

See also this analysis at KitchenSoap
http://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/10/29/counterfactuals-knight-capital/