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发表于 2009-5-30 11:17 AM
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The Spectacular Close: Futures Spike 2% in a Few Seconds
What a lot of traders are talking about is the spike in the equity markets at the close. The SPX was trading in the opening range (903-912) for most of the day before it broke through the upper resistance about 15 minutes before close. This seems to have triggered a large number of buy stop orders as the SPX surged into the close.
The move was violent and the SPX futures market, the most liquid market in the world, too got overwhelmed. Though the closing print on the SPX (cash) was 919.14, the ES futures traded all the way up to 927.75 at 4:00PM. The chatter is that there was an order to purchase 2500 contracts of the SPX futures at close entered by a single dealer (JP Morgan according to some). This corresponds to a notional value of $575 Million dollars. This resulted in all the offers to sell between 914 and 927 to be hit. This also triggered a lot of stop orders to buy, adding to the stampede. |
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