What about the Twitter account of a major news agency? 
Seriously, is that all it takes for the world's biggest stock market's index to drop 143 points?
Seriously, is that all it takes for the world's biggest stock market's index to drop 143 points?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kkCwFkOZoOY#t=12s
You probably have never traded. So what. 140 pips is nothing. Dow Jones has fallen 7000$ - thats 70000 pips in a couple of months when the crysis began. Some people got billionaires (literally) off short positions.
It is ridiculously easy to hack the Twitter account of a major news agency(probably only requires a trojan exploiting a unpatched IE), compared to predict the series of events before the subprime crisis and be in a position to go against the trend with enough funds, the input-ouptput ratio is just different.
