Uh oh. It happened again.
Speaking to people around the traps this morning, it actually doesn’t even sound like it was a fat finger as such. It is a break of a daily trend line that has been in play since 2015 and it just happened to line up with the previous swing low from 2016.
There would have been a tonne of stops sitting just below this level and in illiquid Asian session trading, we know things can get out of hand quite quickly when sell orders all start triggering with nobody in sight to buy.
Take a look at what I’m talking about on the XAG/USD daily chart below:
Silver Daily:
