The undercurrents beneath the surface are hard for ordinary people to perceive in advance.
As for the day's close with a 3% drop in the Dow, nearly 5% in the S&P 500, and 7% in the NASDAQ, it eventually became just another set of data in the day's financial news.
Only those who experienced it firsthand knew how much effort was made on all sides to maintain such seemingly normal declines.
The series of fluctuations within the trading session represented countless traders' thoughts, tests, compromises... Until the market closed at two o'clock, many finally breathed a sigh of relief, including James Sterling.
It's no exaggeration to say that all these operations were a battle of top-level intellects.
Without tacit understanding, without explicit words, fighting for chips on one hand, while maintaining a market environment acceptable to all, requires not just intelligence, but also courage and insight into human nature.
