Excerpted from Jesse's Café Américain


.....Stocks showed some remarkably artificial action last week that was a bit hard to miss.

Similarly, gold and silver continue to rebound from the blatant hammering they took last week as we approach the option expiration at the COMEX. A fellow that trades there said last week that the price would be back over 1200 by Wednesday, and that the option buyers 'were just asking for it.'

Perhaps they were, but it is the job of the CFTC and the US government to make sure that they don't "get it," that is, get cheated, at least not that easily, through the obvious manipulation of price which we have seen in the last week. It would be as if the Nevada Gaming Commission allowed false dealing and marked decks to facilitate the casinos cheating their customers, who were dismissed as greedy gamblers anyway. Why this argument is allowed in the financial markets is beyond me.

The sellers are easily identified, as are the sellers of the calls, and the large short interests. This is not rocket science. It is a failure to do one's job, and uphold their sworn oaths to protect the public. You can judge their motives.

Quote: "The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution."
-Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Posted by Jesse at 12:13 PM

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2010/05/sp-futures-daily-chart-and-brief-note.html

Dan