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To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (52570)	6/25/2011 9:36:07 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95616

Don, re >for the short term, days or weeks, the market is a result of happenings on a worldwide basis< Big or small traders need volatility to make a profit. They'll attempt to create volatility if it doesn't result from happenings. The nature of the happenings doesn't matter to them as long as stocks go up or down. I can't prove it, but when watching index futures trading after hours I can see boring low volume trading suddenly come to life with a big volume/price spike - only to return to the base a few minutes later. I think that goes on during regular hours, too, but is less visible because of much higher volume. PS: I don't trade futures, just watch sometimes