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>All of a sudden, in the course of about two minutes, a rapid cascade of very small trades (a few tens to a few hundreds of dollars) propelled it back to ~98.5 cents. It looked really dodgy.

What's dodgy about that? I think everyone here would love to buy a virtual dollar for 90 cents. Especially given the behavior of the market the past month.

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If you're not seeing it then I'm not going to argue with you, neither of us has the data to prove any of what might be going on.

However multiple trades of very similar amounts in under a second, after a long, massive slide in much larger amounts in the morning, looks very dodgy to me. Especially when these trades appear at the last possible moment, when all market resistance to freefall has just disappeared.

But sure, whatever. Could be legit.

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