And Now For Today's Mini Silver Flash Crash: Same Time, Same Place

by Tyler Durden
05/03/2011 18:42 -0400
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Just like yesterday and the day before, http://www.zerohedge.com/article/golden-flash-crash 6:30pm is now the official precious metal "bang the afterhours" launch time. As we predicted minutes ago, http://twitter.com/#!/zerohedge/status/ ... 5295599616 silver just got taken to the cleaners on what is now an apparent attempt to push silver around in the no volume part of after hours trading, in the 6-7 pm no man's land. We expect an imminent rebound after this latest attempt to trigger stop losses, probably those around $40, fails. If it succeeds in pushing silver below $40 it is very possible that the metal can promptly trade down to the mid $30s as a result. And while banging the close has been investigated by the CFTC for years (resulting in some modest smacks on the wrist recently for the ex-Moore trader http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ex-moo ... her-things who did this with impunity), we are confident it won't be before 2015 that the CFTC's commissioners investigate this particularly odd behavior in silver and gold. By then it, of course, won't matter.