Shedding Some Light

Jason Zweig’s column, along with a couple of others in todays’ edition of the Wall Street Journal shed a bit of light on what’s been going on the with the market this week. We do know that there was significant selling in some high flying tech stocks, but that does not explain the drop in the Dow and the S&P 500. One of the WSJ articles indicated that hedge funds were liquidating, not just tech stocks, but any stock they viewed as being risky. We know that the flash traders place orders f...