[quote=afx114]I’m not an economist nor a trader — can someone explain why it would bounce back so quickly? Are these all automated trades being triggered by the quick movement? How can things be so bad that it will drop so far, then, “oops, nevermind, it’s not so bad after all” over the span of a couple minutes?[/quote]

‘They’ realized that I moved 20% of my 401k from cash and TIPS to stock last night.