Massive sell/buy orders create huge gold market instability

``... someone with enormously deep pockets does have to be there to support these massive trades, because the risks could be enormous if the market turns against them. This may even have happened yesterday where the futures trade volumes, in this instance driving the gold price upwards, showed a rather different pattern, suggesting a very big element of this -- the second wave of trades you can see in the graphic - was through some rather desperate short covering.''