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To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (73911)	11/9/2006 9:40:53 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Eddy, never mind, I'm not trying to convince you these markets aren't free. One can either have faith in free markets, or not. I don't, based on what I see. Some folks (floor traders) see it in huge 15,000 contracts per minute SP e-mini orders from one counterparty. I don't have access, so I just see the effect on DOW tape from arbitragers. WYSIWYG, so I tend to believe these folks. That's my chart, I see this every day. It started probably in 2003-2004.I tend to believe these rallies that throw SP up 10 points in 30 minutes are quite strange. They are 10 standard deviations on short-term chart, so the statistical probability of those rallies to happen by chance is 0.000000000000000000001 or less It is also worth noting that when this SP rally started in July, only about 3-5 points of 40 first points were gains during the market hours. I consider that strange as well. I have no other evidence myself, so ...