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A Few Examples Of Just How Broken The Market Was This Morning

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With 4,500 'crash' events this morning, we thought it worth surveying some of the carnage that 'liquidity-providing' high-frequency scapegoats left in their wake at the open...

In some big ETFs:

 

And some major individual names:

 

Aside from the above, it really is all about the fundamentals, we "promise"

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:25 | 6463316 lehmen_sisters
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No manipulation here folks, move along....You would think they would atleast make it look somewhat realistic. 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:29 | 6463330 whotookmyalias
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Most truthful thing I've ever heard Cramer say. When asked why the market was down so far so fast, he said "it's machines and algorithms"

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 13:23 | 6464162 detached.amusement
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which is precisely why they simply pulled the whole plug last time. 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:26 | 6463317 Haole
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Fundamental keystrokes.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:45 | 6463479 Bush Baby
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And right now you are witnessing the power of the PPT

And there's plenty more where that came from

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6463318 whotookmyalias
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The efficient market fairly tale isn't even told anymore.  The new reality is "fuck everyone else in order to preserve .0001% more profit for me." Progress.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 13:27 | 6464181 detached.amusement
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more likely, you can take the reciprocal and add a 9 exponent to that number, for the .0001

 

but you said it in the right spirit , so +1

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:26 | 6463321 AgentHarlequin
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"Was"??? Past-tense, really?

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:26 | 6463325 Shibumi2
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Long DTRUMP comb-forward

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:27 | 6463336 The man with po...
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Note how the dollar flash-crashed along with US stock markets. Every time the dollar has gone lower in the last several days so have stocks. So what happens when QE4 happens?

FUBARed stocks.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:32 | 6463369 bnbdnb
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The Fed will do nothing.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:02 | 6463592 KnuckleDragger-X
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No, they will cover their ass.......

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:31 | 6463813 RadioactiveRant
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She had no problems with the housing market bubble until long after the event so I don't see why she'd be any more prescient this time.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:27 | 6463338 pods
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They are just figuring out where to close it at today.

Open was chaos, but soon after the time out all the indices magically shot up and now are in a tight pattern. 

My guess is ~2% down for the three.

Can't have an even day as someone might ask how you can be 1k points off the low.

pods

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:33 | 6463387 saints51
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You and I would ask, but these morons in the world have no clue that the market is even down today much less Friday. I actually was hoping to see a market close before open and not reopen. Thats the show I really wanted to see. Still have tomorrow.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:49 | 6463503 pods
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Well, it seems I might have underestimated the "resilience" of the market, as it is approaching -2% and it isn't even major ramp time.

Oh well.

pods

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:52 | 6463527 saints51
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It is moving up again on low volume. Just remember they can only play this game for so long. This is just a taste of what is to come. I am still a believer in a September crash.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:05 | 6463607 KnuckleDragger-X
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A fighting retreat is hard to accomplish and remember this is only Monday, so four more days of it and then on to NEXT week......

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6463342 saints51
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Its about you are either a member of the satanic ashkenazi tribe or not. satan apparently offers a great pension from what I can tell.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:32 | 6463373 Dr. Engali
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Nothing to see here, just your typical muppet raping.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:41 | 6463428 HardlyZero
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Significant only to those who got stopped out...so now many pension funds and investors will exit gracefully later this week from the "markets".

Get cash or get SRTY.

 

Watched GE and JPM go way below -10% this morning...in the Manic Monday Twang.

 

It is a or "the" wakeup call of 2015.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:42 | 6463460 all-priced-in
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It is not rape when you consent to it -

 

Did someone force people to buy stocks?

 

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:51 | 6463520 pods
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No, but of course when they bought stocks they assumed that the stated rules would be followed.

Your line of thinking places blame on the clients when say, John Corzine raids their accounts to pay off his bad bets.

Stuff like that.

pods

Tue, 08/25/2015 - 10:00 | 6468128 all-priced-in
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Not sure how Corzine fits into this thread - but yes he is an ass hole of epic proportions.

 

What stated rules? That the market can only go up or its not fair? The same market has been around for years.

 

I am not placing blame on anyone - but if you go out on the field to play football then you lose the right to cry about it  when someone tackles you.

 

 

If when the market drops you call it rape - then what do you call it

 

When the market goes up up up up up ?

 

Its all good when the manipulated market does nothing but move higher - but its ass rape when it drops because that isn't fair.  

 

Give me a fucking break -

 

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:55 | 6463556 Bullionaire
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"Did someone force people to buy stocks?"

 

Yes. 401k. Duh.

Tue, 08/25/2015 - 09:30 | 6468138 all-priced-in
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Did the HR manager hold a gun to your head and force you to select the aggressive growth stock fund?

 

Be an adult and take responsibility - again sort of like my comment above - when you 401K is going up 15%+ every year no one complains about being ass raped - but a drop and all of a sudden it is someone else that is cheating you based on a rigged system.

The system has been rigged for years and years - if you accept the good then be a man and accept the bad - or put your 401K  into the money market option and stay away from stocks.

 

 

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:15 | 6463695 A Nanny Moose
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Yes. By taxing dollars now, and offering incentives for an approved retirement account.

Tue, 08/25/2015 - 09:34 | 6468154 all-priced-in
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I know many people that refuse to participate in IRA or any other tax sheltered retirement account.

 

It is still a choice - 

 

When your IRA goes up 25% you don't complain - but when it drops 10% you feel cheated and ass raped.

 

It is the same rigged system either way - you accept the gains with a smile then cry when things drop -

 

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 13:04 | 6464025 Doubleguns
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 A$$ raping is not the consentual sex folks were expecting.

Tue, 08/25/2015 - 09:55 | 6468232 all-priced-in
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I figured out 20 years ago that the markets were rigged - anyone that has not figured this out by now deserves to be ass raped.

 

If you go into a bathhouse - get naked - and bend over and spread your cheeks apart - you lose the right to complain when someone fucks you in the ass -

 

But this is more like you go to the bath house everyday and spread your cheeks apart for 5 years - someone fucks you in the ass every time and you like it (market goes up up up) - then you find out you have AIDS (market drops) and you complain that you were raped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 08/25/2015 - 10:04 | 6468277 clade7
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Yeah!  Still, its fun to complain about something other than the weather.  Especially at a family get together...

 

Brother in law: "Boy we got a lot of rain this summer!  The yards a mess!" 

 

Me: "Yeah you think you got it tough??   I got assraped by a big black coon down at the bath house!"

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:32 | 6463376 thunderchief
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The real damage is this will blow out all trust in these Markets.

If  it was all machines crashing the market today, it will be all people doing the same for the next few months, trying to salvage some of their retirements.  its called panic selling and we have not even gotten started. 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:36 | 6463407 saints51
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If people are ever allowed again to place orders then I would agree. Right now you have someone making the order entry system look like a strobe light.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:35 | 6463400 dobermangang
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We're in a desperate need for a distraction.  How about the Nobel committee giving Obama a prize for "Economics".

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:02 | 6463591 Bullionaire
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Doubtful, considering this:

Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Committee, said that US President Barack Obama “should really consider” an immediate surrender of his Nobel Peace Prize Medal. According to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Jagland, accompanied by four other members of the Committee, said that they had never asked for the return of the Peace Prize before, “even from such a war criminal as Henry Kissinger.”

http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/20/middle-east-two-approaches-to-the-reso...

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:36 | 6463405 fowlerja
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I want to invest in "machines and algorithms"...I believe they best understand the fundamentals of market pricing...and yes I want the fastest machine possible...I want to make some "mad money"...anyway it is easier than farming...

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:01 | 6463587 I-am-not-one-of-them
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farming?

also "machines and algorithms" now

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:36 | 6463406 MaxMax
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Anybody have an accurate feed on what the market is actually doing?  Bloomberg and Yahoo are reporting the DOW a couple hunderd points apart, and it has been like that all morning.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:37 | 6463420 saints51
Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:36 | 6463408 tiger uppercut
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I don't know anything. So were people actually able to trade JPM or AAPL at those lows? HFT only? Or did those trades get cancelled?

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:38 | 6463427 KCMLO
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We're seeing some of these orders execute.  The exchange isn't busting some, see my comment about BKCC, some lucky "traders" are nailing 10x gains to the wall purchasing BS halted prices.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:36 | 6463409 KCMLO
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BKCC traded 54,000 shares at the bottom of 0.79 and was then halted.  When it came back it was 8.88.  Whoever snagged that bottom trade made friggin' bank.  Lots of falling knives today, especially on the sell-side with all the halts.  People are getting raked over the coals to keep this price up.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:55 | 6463552 Loucleve
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thats a great chart!  $1.

almost as bad was RSP.  75 to 50.  Now 73.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:37 | 6463419 all-priced-in
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< S&P higher for the week by Friday close.

< S&P lower for the week by Friday close.

 

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:39 | 6463421 Ms No
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Crude is at 38.39 when does the shale ponzi blow?  There was another explosion in Japan (#2), Russian and China are in the midst of a huge military drill, some Israeli fighter shot down, we have a market rout and gold is down a dollar.  Hilarious!   

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:47 | 6463496 LetsGetPhysical
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Castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually - Jimi Hendrix

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 11:53 | 6463534 Tjeff1
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Dow now down only -240 (11:52 est)   .... PPT is trying to juice the markets just before the sheeple check their portfolios at lunch time. 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:21 | 6463565 Keltner Channel Surf
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Space-age "liquidity providers" take advantage of opening market sell orders, entered at 6:25 before retail headed off to work, and stepped aside like Lucy with Charlie Brown's football. before magically noticing institutional buys, coded w/ the special "at 9:37" order type we see regularly, though largely unavailable through TD Ameritrade.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:08 | 6463633 KittyStix
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Too the tune of loony...

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:20 | 6463741 daxtonbrown
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My stock was at 24.62 Fri. I had a limit order in at $24.20 then I saw the overnight news and dropped it to 23.80.
Market blew right through that and hit 19.95 before correcting to $24.10

I saw my life flash before my eyes, all within 20 minutes.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:39 | 6463873 Manipulism
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You shouldnt gamble.

Only the bank wins.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 12:45 | 6463915 arrowrod
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We wus (yeah, spelling) playing softball this morning (old guys in Florida).  The sun was shining, we finished our games and went home for lunch and naps.

I'm told I lost a $1million again.  I don't think I'll live long enough to deduct my losses at $3000 a year.

Do I get to deduct $3000 for each year of losses? 

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