DislikedHansma, not a bad idea! When the LS closes and the market goes soft/far less active, that is a time the MMs can more easily manipulate prices to where they want them; costs 'em less to pull it off. So, a manipulation that is nice and deep might be just what these greedy bastards set out to do. Would reset the price lower, and in the process create liquidity by hitting long stops and pending shorts, for them to add more longs at whatever bottom they achieve, as you point out.
Tight stop on the short, though. Or constant live monitoring,...Ignored
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