Mini-Flash crashes are defined as "abrupt and sever price changes that occur in an extremely short period".

Financial theory could employ refined statistical methods in order to observe the self referential aspects of systems, noted by econophysicsts as Dragon Kings, in order to better understand the systemic failures and complex reliance on mathematical distributions of risk. The elements of uncertainty that drive the crashes themselves can not be escaped until modeling processes are advanced enough to describe real world complexity, and where technology is not capable of including the vast systems of relations and unobservables required for a discrete solution that would be all encompassing.