WTF ! Was this algos or short covering or both ? Crazy move. Maybe we'll get another one when Trump talks.
I think it was a battle over the hourly close. Bears tried to push it down just before close, bulls tried to push it back in the channel but last seconds bears pushed it back down. So nobody won and we have another hour to choose direction.
I initially thought news myself, but maybe there's simply a lot of resting orders and otherwise interest around the 3K level. Just a thought. On the contrary - there wasn't anything magic about the 3K level when we took it out from below earlier this week.
I am more and more convinced that these spikes are market manipulations. Each time it happens volume is low just before it happens and then volume goes 20 times higher. When it started we went down almost 10 points in 10 seconds (volume 7600 contracts) and the next 10 seconds up 7 points.
Somebody makes a lot of money in those moves. We aren't invited to the meetings. We aren't in the club.
Sorry for the slow response Relent, on 60 min chart we broke up above the 2965 area which was a lid since 4/29..then a successful re-test with another leg up to highs yesterday...generally fakeouts will reverse on 2nd leg failure..b/c re-test held, we should get another leg up first..
Floor construction is occurring at the 3010 area. ---Staying long----I expect higher pricings----much, much higher.
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