Reply #10: Well, it sure wasn't supposed to be any of us

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Someone bought very low and sold very high, but it wasn't supposed to be any of the "little" people. That kind of action is reserved for only the finest investors. Of course, if anyone had known about it, it wouldn't have happened. That's why it had to happen as it did, unexpectedly.

Here's how we will be able to tell if the market got scammed, according to Bartcop's Rule of Mistakes: Anytime someone makes a "mistake" that puts money in his pocket, you can bet he'll repeat that "mistake." There's hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars that went out of some accounts and into some other accounts. Right now, nobody seems to know exactly what happened. Which is good for the scammers, if it's a scam. But if it was a scam and it goes undetected, will the scammers be able to resist the allure of another quick hit like this? Or will they be happy with their plunder and go away now? Human nature suggests that is unlikely. If it happens again, then this "mistake" was no mistake.