I'm no conspiracy theorist, but you were "in charge", with the economy showing continued signs of weakness and possibly warning signs of another recession looming, negative numbers every way you look, with unemployment and NFPs coming out the day after a 500 point panic drop in the dow, would you allow the numbers to be bad this morning? Let's face it, this is possible, and I'm not saying they're flubbed, but the state of the global economy could have been dealt a very serious blow if unemployment was .1 or .2% lower, and if the NFPs were anywhere much less than 100K. The numbers are possibly totally legit, but today was NOT a good day for bad numbers if we wanted the market to not collapse any further, which it very well still may, for the reasons that were still a concern yesterday and are today as well no doubt.
On the CL side, I took a short from .94 around 8:15 or so and exited at .46 a couple of minutes before the news. Just trailed the bar highs with the stop and target reached. I am getting spoiled by this 24/7 movement again just like earlier this year, and I know if won't last forever, but it's nice at the moment.