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Algorithms · April 2015

Trading Algorithms Bought Tesla's April Fool's Joke

Elon Musk's April Fool's joke about a Tesla Watch sent text-mining trading bots into a frenzy, triggering one of Tesla's biggest one-minute trading bursts ever. The algorithms never checked a calendar.

Source: VentureBeat

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