OK here is how this scheme was orchestrated: Lets Call the people or person who did this Player A
First Player A sold off the rand after the market opened causing the pound to weaken:
Pound at 8.30am was R17.8839. Player A took the pound as high as R18.03 during the day and it closes at R17.9816 at 5pm!!
Just with the currency adj. we had 190 points added to alsi. Obviously for him to weaken the currency, he was prepared to lose money when he has to re buy it!! Well its all in the bigger grand scheme of things. If he takes the market up and his options hit strike at 80 some odd billion, he must have been prepared to loose a few million on the currency side... Look at the past history for last 12 trading days for pound. Every single day it opened at a high, went lower during the day and then closed at a high. So our markets also opened high, went right down and then recovered at close for yes the last 12 trading days!! Today player decided he was going to play the MMs at there own game and juts took the pound higher and higher. If you look at after hours right now, its down to R17.94.
His second move and a good one at that...He did not play the Alsi...He went for the juggler and went for the underlying...and that too not local shares but overseas shares...SAB and NPN. Our MMs can control local shares but they cant control the dual listed ones.
SAB up a whooping 5.5%...for what reason was it up. Why suddenly jump? Yes the weak pound could support its price but at most 1%.
Player A buys the momentum driven foreign underlying knowing he can dispose of it quickly and maybe at a small loss once his options are cashed in....The increase in SAB on our bourse added 280 points to the index.
Then Player A bought NPN up 4.02% today. Once again a popular stock not hard to offload once options cashed in. NPN rise today added 150 points to the index.
Grand total of 3 = 190 + 280 +150 = 620 points!!!
MMs were taken to task and could not fight the sudden increase in the underlying!!
Where was the overall world markets?
FTSE was red by over .5% at one time. Dow also opened red and no way SAB in london could have risen 5.5% unless their was a powerfull and concerted effort to push it up and up on a red day!! Dow is still red as i write this...
So in my opinion, the thugs met their matcg today and still licking their wounds, not to realize tht tomorrow will be more bloodshed for them. Futures rollover in over a weeks time, so if Player A was using the futures market he wanted to make sure he made money before they expired!! However i am pretty sure he was using call options!!
Where does this leave us in the forum? Well im sure those short the lesson is.....
1. Think outside the box first especially those who went short today.
2. Make sure stop losses in place or you become another casualty of this game. Its called collateral damage. ( Every looks rosy for a short and the next minute your account is wiped out for no valid reason)
3. Do not try to catch the top. Guys have been doing in from 41000 thinking here it is,,,but this beast juts goes up and up.
PLease note: This is juts my theory of what happened today. I could be hopelessly on the wrong track but its for you to make up your own mind.