Sure enough!. It is not that I am amazed at the fact that it is manipulated. Earlier, I could see the writing on the wall on Thursday and Friday. Now, every fucking day at the most crazy times. And every time it happens, bam, price down, push a button, rebound, cash-in. Fun stuff and pays for the whiskey and the growth of my stack.  So, I am not lamenting it. As Captain America said: I can do this all day ....;-)  I just, see this change in dynamics on day-trading level. But on only on 1 indice, but on 5.  I was thinking about the historic relationship between gold and silver as being 16:1. A days work would give a silver dollar, or one once, no? Currently, that would mean a 120 dollars worth so 6x. based on that a Gold exchange rate of 1900 dollars is not out of the ordinary. This would alleviate a lot of issues, especially in a transition period.    Interestingly, currently 5 indices are showing the same type of manipulation, both down and up, Silver, gold, Dollar/EUR, Brent and WTI. On a 30 sec/ 1 minute chart you can see the battle raging.