[quote=svelte]And doubly confounding that the markets are OK today. So far. This is exactly why I could never be a day trader. Extremely hard to figure out what the markets will do next.[/quote]
I think the markets are that fast, and global.
The panic started up about 6PM PST yesterday, when, IMHO, CNN and other major news outlets, weren’t calling states like MI, PA for Hillary.
That’s why futures cratered over night. They by the time Japan got to mid-day, they were already bargain hunting.