All seems like funny business to me6 Jan 2014 20:26
Trades equivalent to 1.1 million troy ounces, worth about $1.3 billion, changed hands in the space of a minute Monday morning, triggering a trading halt on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
"One thousand contracts (in a second) is high, and in the past year that has halted the market several times," Mr. Hunsader said. "Seeing something over 2,000 contracts in a second is very rare, and here you have 4,000 contracts."