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by consz 4234 days ago
I was talking about 130k in any one strategy. I'm sorry you misunderstood me.

A single strategy is easily capable of losing that much. Any bond futures or cash bond strategy post-FOMC. Any equity index futures strategy during Twitter "flash crash". Any strategy taking large size in a big future during early-mid October this year. Any strategy taking large size in a big future during August 2011. Any Nikkei futures strategy right after the recent QE announcement from Japan.

All of those are easily capable of dropping 130k in a day.