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User Info ES Plunges By 2 Standard Deviations In 5 Minutes in forum [NotSoBreakingPrice]
Throxxofvron
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mini-flash....

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Mini Flash Crash? ES Plunges By 2 Standard Deviations In 5 Minutes

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2011 17:27 -0500



The last 5 minutes of today's somewhat tempestuous day saw a rather dramatic plunge in ES on very heavy volume which could easily be flash-crash-worthy in its description. Having tested VWAP a number of times during the day and been unable to make any progress above it (suggesting program selling was active), the final desperate straw broke the camel's back into the close as ES dropped 1% in less than 5 minutes as volume dwarfed the rest of the day with machines fighting each other to exit at a reasonable price. Furthermore, the drop in ES was very much standalone as other risk assets did not correlate instantly and only started to drop after a delay led by equities plunge. ES is holding these losses after-hours at a steady 1160. Where's Waddell & Reed when we need them?


Look at the VOLUME on this dump!!!!

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"GET ME OUT! Because who knows what's going to blow up over the holiday."

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Ishmael
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I saw that last few minute move. I thought the day was over and was working on something else and thought what the bloody hell when I looked at the candles.

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Swampogre
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Looked perfectly normal to me. This kind of thing happens all the time in less liquid things like, say, GDX, the etf for gold miners. You can pretty much tell what's going to happen on the market close by the day's action, and today's action was mostly stuck between "get out at any price" and "ramp it up to suck 'em in".
At EOD, facing a possible vicious gap Friday morning, the first, which of course is The Fear, dominates over the 2nd.
Besides which, who's around to get sucked in at EOD before a major holiday? The pros. And they ain't gettin' sucked in.
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aka hit the bid

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Sounds like investment advice to me, Nanna. smiley

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