The AI Trade Machine the Market Is Not Calling a Market

The Vega 56 is not an oversight failure. It is an oversight category error. Reg SCI requires exchanges to have business continuity plans but does not ask whether a retail trader's inference workload generates order flow that falls under exchange supervision. The CFTC's rules on algorithmic trading require testing for 'orders that could disrupt an orderly market' — a standard written for institutional batch execution, not for a consumer GPU sending orders one at a time through an API. The r/AMDHelp thread shows a user maintaining the exact hardware that…