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> I can't speak for the S&P market specifically, but in general terms over
> most futures markets.
>
> At times of heavy market volatility (which includes most closes) the
> trades are happening so fast that there is simply no way to input them
> into the system fast enough. The delay you see is simply the reporters
> catching up with what happened, even the boards on the floor are delayed.
> I'm not familiar with LOS, but when I am talking to the floor and this is
> happening, they will tell you that the boards are delayed.
>
> There is not a input system in the world that can keep up with a couple
> hundred human brains, which is what makes open outcry the most liquid form
> of trading.
>
> Kevin
LIQUIDITY on DTB-Bund has by far overtaken the LIFFE-Bund and thats the
reason people are flooding into the electronic market from the PIT market
rgds hans
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