If you want to pump the markets not to retail but to the Asian and European markets you quietly make a pump announcement on Friday night specifically to get Asian and European markets to pump their own leveraged cash in first -
- HKSE opens then Europe then the FTSE and much later in the day, the end of the day, the US opens its markets.
It’s a great way to transfer international money into the US hedge funds.
At US open Trump makes whatever announcement he fancies on semi conductors and the US market decides what it does with Asian and European money.
Additionally, I noticed two announcements that indicate that the US wants to change the way the exchanges run. One is 24 hour NYSE and the other is to stop changing clocks. These measures gain increased control and monitoring over the NYSE and international markets from what I can tell.