Reply #18: Citigroup denied this today.

[girl gone mad]

There had already been 20 minutes of pure selling (dow down ~500 pts) before this trade was even supposedly entered so to blame it for the fall is a bit of a stretch. Such errors happen on a fairly regular basis, and they are corrected quickly. There is much more to the story than some fat-fingered trade. Or is the same trader to blame for the fall in Asia tonight? I will hold off on drawing any premature conclusions on today's action. I will say that equities are still heavily detached from economic fundamentals.