DislikedHi Sisse,
Thanks for your comments.
As for my claim of manipulation, I was simply referring to the central bank swaps between the Fed, BOJ and the ECB to provide foreign currency liquidity to the ECB in order to facilitate unlimited liquidity to euro area banks. On Monday something smelled rotten and I couldn't put my finger on it. On Wednesday it was confirmed that it was the cbanks.
Instead of explaining my view all in detail in this post, I will refer you instead to the post I made on Wednesday on this subject after I was taken by complete surprise.
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I had my doubts that we were going to go in the spiral on dealers and stops are everything and order flow in M5 + + +,etc etc is the only reason for markets to move and the only players, etc...
With that clear that market manipulation comments was only about semantics I guess. in simple words the real movers and shakers step in the market.
Interesting point view. In my opinion was a confluence of FA factors on those lows (TA was very easy and clear ...a simple rejection of weekly swing low) but definitively the EZ announcing the "new deal" (Sunday) for November with the confirmation of EFSF votes (Tuesday, Weds) were the key particular trigger and momentum fueled by the first "good" NFP (before the fact obviously Friday before) that cleared the double dip fears in the US and the plethora of CBs supports across the board guaranteeing more "free money" that made stock market made the important rally we have seen.
On the correlated, Oil was particularly clear (Thursday before) and leading before the move, signaling the bottom and breaking back to sluggish economic growth and not recession levels.
IMO the meat of the move is done. Buy the rumor, sell the news is done. Now we need the actual details on the debt front and a good round of macro numbers ..a failure to deliver or more negative numbers will out us back on the lows ...
sisse
Pending conversations? PM for a chat...I am mainly in OTM now