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Old 10-11-2008, 06:12 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Fat Elvis View Post
Margin calls. The rapid and ongoing descent of the market is resulting in a lot of huge margin calls that need to be met and people/institutions/hedge funds are just doing wholesale dumping of anything and everything they have whether it is equitities or commoditites.
That's part of it. The gold market is tiny compared to other markets so any player making a big move will affect the price up/down, but then it usually springs back from an overbought or oversold position. That's why there have been $80 moves up and down in a matter of an hour or two in the past month.

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