The Invisible Forces Exacerbating Market Swings

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Derivatives activity and heavy selling from funds that tend to make knee-jerk buying and selling decisions based on the level of market volatility created a perfect storm for the biggest Wall Street selloff in almost five years

The rapid spread of the coronavirus outside China spurred turmoil in financial markets this week. Investors say hedging activity by options traders might have made it even worse.

Market volatility roared back this week, smashing a streak of tranquility that helped pull major U.S. stock indexes to records just days earlier. The S&P 500 suffered its biggest two-day slide since August 2015 on Monday and Tuesday, while listed options activity hit the second highest level ever Tuesday.

 

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Are you peeping?

Count the worshipped U/A lady out. She is fragile and should handle her with care. Because she is a worthy woman of marroagee.b

put a stop to futures trading and stop automated trading and things will get better fAST

Hopefully, the President Xi Jinping and the entire CCP leadership get their just rewards for their oppression, secret and mismanagement in regards to this disease. They have been bad luck for China and now the world is paying a price.

Sounds like a new regulation on the horizon

big dick energy in that picture.

Coronavirus is the perfect scapegoat for the massive fraud and theft that is taking place. It couldn't have been planned better. The market crashes & all that money goes right where planned. Meanwhile, the Fed is embezzling even more money into the bankers' 'vaults' every night.

Комусь коронавірус - збитки. А комусь - прибуток.

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