Gold Flash Crashes As “Someone” Dumps $2 Billion, “Fat Finger” Blamed

Monday, June 26, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 26, 2017

One minute after 4am EDT, as the European market was warming up for trading, Gold suddenly plunged $12, or 1%, to $1,242 an ounce, on a surge in volume with 18k contracts, or just over $2 billion notional, trading in a one-minute window; as of 9:20am London, volumes running around 150% of recent averages. As so often happens, the gold plunge dragged silver down with it as well.

A better chart of the move comes courtesy of Nanex which shows how the sudden selling soaked up all the liquidity in the gold market in seconds, with the clear intention of repricing gold lower.

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