It may be an error.Traders are citing a large block of emini S&P 500 futures as part of whatâs triggered stocks to pare losses late in the session. âClearly someone buying the market,â referring to a bundle of 60,000 contracts to hit the tape, says Mike Shea at Direct Access Partners, noting that 1320 has been a key technical level in recent days. DJIA down 35 after falling almost 177 points earlier in the sessions. S&P off 0.3%.
Quote from spanish89:
Merkel cancelled the EU press conference tonight,
and that's meant to have sparked hope that she has changed her mind about saying no to euro-bonds....
And/Or its just the Plunge-Protection-Team & ECB stepping into the market and buying hard,
just like they have been doing every day, every week for the last few weeks!
They wont let Dow get near 12,000, S&P near 1,300, or Vix above 22,
and so just step in and buy giant amounts in the market.
Quote from BlueTurtle:
It's simple Technical Analysis. See that low....yea, buy right above there and ride the wave to near the top (see here). This is called getting the "meat" of the move, and is really simple.
For this type of action, I would use 1,000 contracts and use a 5 pt trailing stop, never triggered.
genius.
can't you see it on the chart!!!!

60k that's a lot, when they first invented ES the limit per order was something like 23 contractsQuote from chaykapwr:
Massive S&P Order Roils Markets
By Jamie Coleman || June 28, 2012 at 19:52 GMT
Supposedly 60,000 E-mini S&P futures were hoovered up in one go.