
He opened his mouth. The market stopped.
Nobody knows which exchange floor he was born under. Some say he crawled out of a rejected limit order. Others say he was spawned when a market maker sneezed three times in a row. All we know is this: one morning the tape went red, the bells kept ringing, and one ape stood up on the trading desk, bared every single tooth, and roared.
They tried to call a halt. The baboon had already found the button.

