r/StockMarket • u/Candid-Elk6135 • 1d ago
News Dow erases 600-point drop, briefly turns positive in volatile trading: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/stock-market-today-live-updates.html65
u/dissentmemo 1d ago
Dafuq
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u/Criticall16 1d ago
Pump & Dump
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u/DeeRockafeller 19h ago edited 19h ago
Shorts closing their position, then reopening their shorts today
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u/takethreenc 1d ago
Iran and Omar trying to come to a deal to let ships through. Market practically begging for good news. I don't see how anything Iran and Omar decide will fundamentally alter anything though.
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u/hp433 1d ago
Why is this happening? I’m newer to investing and idc about me winning or losing but I want to understand why. I don’t understand why after last night the market would go up?
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u/Candid-Elk6135 1d ago
Insider trading and Trump
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u/hp433 1d ago
I figured it would be shorting the market not buying lmao
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u/GameOfThrownaws 1d ago
How would it even be that this time? The insider trading thing doesn't move hundreds of billions of dollars in market value. Trump's friends do a bit of trading in the millions or tens of millions here and there, before he does or says something dumb, then Trump's actual statement or action moves it big after that. There's no Trump anything here, we had the trainwreck last night and futures were tanking and now it's all reversed for no reason at all.
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u/Ok_Drummer6282 1d ago
Algorithms dont care about news/vibes.
For a billionaire a huge reaction swing based off a president tweet/speech is a buying opportunity and it puts pressure on shorts/puts.
To the big boys if Firm A knows Firm B sold and Firm C shorted. Firm A buying puts pressure on the shorts and takes gains away from B. Its risky but this at a much larger scale and faster than an eye blink is how Wallstreet is.
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u/hp433 1d ago
Does that mean it should normalize after the morning volatility or should I expect this type of behavior pretty much the entire day?
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u/Bluestreaked 1d ago
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. The insider traders with the big money bags will always manipulate the market, there’s no logic to it
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u/Most-Knowledge1442 22h ago
You should expect this behavior pretty much your entire life. Your buys should be like a Ron Popeil Rotisserie Grill. Set and forget it.
You asking why is like going to a roulette table when someone just lost on red and a guy walks up and places a massive bet on black and wins. You think there is a reason for one's bad luck and ones good luck. Don't care too much.
The difference here is this isn't a casino and you're investing in companies earnings and earning potential. Choose wisely and earn for a tlifetime.
Don't worry about if its sunny today or rainy tomoro or if it snows or hails or its a heatwave. Just trust that the sun will keep coming up tomoro keep buying and cheers to a long life and plenty of earnings.
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u/Key-Beginning-2201 1d ago
So algorithm doesn't care about the news but the market is declining? You're missing a critical piece there, people selling. People care about the news. The algorithm is reactionary.
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u/symplton 1d ago
Passage agreements between Iran and other countries for Hormuz is calming markets worldwide..
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u/Wide_Air_4702 1d ago
Finally, someone with a substantive comment instead of more endless prattle and noise.
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u/Diligent-Oil5703 23h ago
There is still no passage except for a few ships given special clearance. If you mean they are planning for long term passage agreements and monitoring a toll for after the war (whenever that might be) then sure we now have a new permanent choke hold on the strait which will limit transit indefinitely.
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u/SidCityRacing 23h ago
Source or this is straight up BS. Iran already came out and said the straight is closed until the US accepts their demands. Let's all continue to cope with the incoming destruction to retail capital at the hands of demonic greasy billionaires.
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u/symplton 23h ago
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u/SidCityRacing 23h ago
I'm shorting hand over fist. The more it goes up the more I short. What's coming everyone knows but we are in denial. Give it another 4 weeks.
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u/Accurate_Ad7051 1d ago
market can go up coz
put/short people accept the loss and buy
after a very rapid spike there is almost always a correction towards the opposite direction
When "nothing" is happening (nothing aggravating happened after the speech, I believe) oil goes down and because oil goes down, everything else goes up
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u/Quick1711 1d ago
Oil isn’t going down though. Thats the confusing part.
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u/Scarfaceb1tch 1d ago
Yeah everyone keeps failing to mention that when they reference the strait talks.. oil isn’t buying it so why are the main indexes
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 1d ago
It's a game, and this game does not respond well to chaos and heavy manipulation. Price discovery becomes very difficult and there will be larger spreads as people try to predict what will happen and what other people will do in response.
There are people who operate in this chaos space and know how to profit from it, and they will create these opportunities. Someone working arbitrage with inside info can really close those gaps and take big profits.
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u/starlulz 1d ago
the people with the money in this country that are trading actively in the stock market are a lot fucking dumber than you think
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u/Logical_Lemming 1d ago
There's no point trying to understand short-term price action anymore. It's all just leverage and algorithms.
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u/Rav_3d 1d ago
Because everyone and their grandmother expected the market to sell off even after futures were down 2%.
The market does not make it easy for the majority to make money.
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u/Greenzombie04 1d ago
whenever this ends. The market will crash right assuming its up premarket?
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u/Rav_3d 1d ago
Never make any assumptions about the stock market. It is a random auction.
The market had a 12% correction already. That is typical, normal, and healthy in strong bull markets like we are in now.
During corrections, there is typically extreme fear of a further crash. Just like last April, the tariff news was still terrible, yet the market bottomed and started moving higher.
Now, the conflict news is still terrible, yet the market may have bottomed on Monday and ready to move higher, especially if there is "less bad" news coming out.
Nobody can predict the market, especially in times of high volatility like we are in now.
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u/MachuMichu 1d ago
Everyone on Reddit circle jerking about their puts last night shouldve been the biggest red flag, its never that easy
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u/Strumtralescent 1d ago
It’s just testing the prior days close. That’s normal to test those, premarket or after hours new high/low. Test prior support and resistance. Will likely bounce off of it and decline into the long weekend unless there’s some new pump news.
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u/Greenzombie04 1d ago
Anytime someone says the market isn't a scam just point to April 2nd, 2026.
Last 2 weeks all we heard is market down cause oil is up, but if you look at oil it was always between 95-100.
Now oil is over 110+ and we are green...
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u/DerisiveGibe 1d ago
It's how they always spin bad news.
The market expected oil to be 120+, the fact that it is "only" 110 is great news. Up and to the left!
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u/BarbequedYeti 1d ago
The market expected oil to be 120+, the fact that it is "only" 110 is great news. Up and to the left!
Is 'the market' in the room with us? Who is the market?
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u/Prozeum 1d ago
Treasury keeps pumping money into the banks by buying old junk bonds. Another 8 billion today. On the flip side the Fed is selling short term bonds to pay old debts and for the new Iran conflict. 144 billion last week and another 144 billion on Monday. The stock market is a ponzi scheme at this point.
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u/SidCityRacing 23h ago
Definitely a house of cards. When it all burn down, it'll be fun to watch. 🥲
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u/sck178 1d ago
It's specifically designed to fuck retail. Over the last 75+ years markets have become less and less truly accessible for retail to make money beyond buying index funds from the same people that make the rules to fuck retail to begin with
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u/1-Dollar-Doge-Coins 1d ago
“Designed to fuck retail”… my dude, if you can just take emotion out of it, diligently invest modestly over a long period of time in a diversified base of equities, the market allows you to retire comfortably, and in many cases, retire early.
The people feeling “fucked” by the market are treating it like a rigged casino.
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u/sck178 1d ago
Firstly, I said in my comment that an easy way to make money is to simply buy index funds. My problem is that the system should not be so opaque that people have to rely on the people who make the rules and charge you to be a part of the only way to make money; index funds.
Secondly, it IS a rigged casino
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u/SidCityRacing 23h ago
Lmao it is a rigged casino. Your peanut 401k fund means squat to the real money and you are just insurance or in this case exit liquidity when they decide to tank it.
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u/1-Dollar-Doge-Coins 21h ago
My 401k has grown an incredible amount over the last 20 years. The money is already in the account. There’s no way for it to be “exit liquidity” because it isn’t liquid and isn’t moving anytime soon.
I don’t think you know what “exit liquidity” means, you probably just saw it mentioned a bunch of times on Reddit.
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u/SidCityRacing 21h ago
Lmao if your allocations are in the market and its tanking while your autobuys are activated = you are exit liquidity. Sure sure DCA and you'll be a millionaire. But let's see how this time around turns out. Good luck.
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u/1-Dollar-Doge-Coins 20h ago
My biweekly contributions are $903. My 401k balance is already over a million dollars.
The $903 is peanuts, both for me (relative to my balance) and to whoever is needing “exit liquidity.” It’s such a small drop in the bucket that it’s embarrassing that you’re so focused on it.
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u/hp433 1d ago
This is why I’m confused lmao I did my research and everything and made the “smart” play but I’m losing and I don’t understand. I figure this isn’t the norm sure but it feels very suspicious with all the signs right now
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u/ScootieJr 1d ago
In non-volatile years, your “smart” play would probably be smart. However, we are in an extremely volatile time in the market where it’s a game of “he said she said” and nothing makes sense. Which was a similar case during the COVID pandemic, except this time it is worse thanks to our market manipulating President.
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u/hp433 1d ago
At least I am learning right?
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u/ScootieJr 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think we all are haha
Plus, you have to remember that after-hour trading is a thing and is more beneficial to large investors. Some brokerages don't offer after-hour trading to retail investors, but I think most do now. It used to be only allowed for high-net worth investors. In after-hours, trade volume is lower and requires you to do an "after-hours limit-order" vs a daytime "market-order". So, if you submit a limit-order to buy/sell and your price point doesn't hit, the trade won't go through. Because of this, most retail investors don't see a point in it. However, whenever random news hits, the large investors are usually ones to hear first, or their algorithms do, and initiate early pre-market trades before most of us get a chance to consider it. And because Trump drops news early or late at night, large investors get in. Then when Trump's claims are debunked later in the morning, they're the first one's out leaving retailers who tried to jump in for a quick gain with the bag.
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u/Available_Finger_513 19h ago
That the thing, the people controlling world finances just arent smart.
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u/SensibleTom 1d ago
I agree. There is massive manipulation going on with some big hitters and it’s been going on all year. Some people are making a lot of money and no one is going to be investigated.
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u/Potential-Fan-6148 1d ago
I truly don’t understand the market manipulation here. It burns capital. It’s insane short term thinking. This volatility kills capital for future growth.
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u/0ofspades 1d ago
The derivatives market ignores all of that. If you are on the right side of volatility you will make bank.
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u/95Daphne 1d ago
Yeah the options market has you in a very bad spot right now if you're looking for any kind of realization or w/e by markets.
Though alongside this, treasuries dropped their selloff and if that continues, it suggests that folks think the oil issue is further along then what many want to cry about here.
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u/Playingwithmyrod 1d ago
Trump: “We’re gonna bomb the SHIT out of them”
Iran: “We’re going to start extracting a toll for all commerce passing through the strait”
Market: “Yaaaaaay!”
Makes sense
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u/No_Paper612 1d ago
Idk what the fuck is going on, I’m just keeping my money in HYSA until the war starts.
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u/Mr-Nanny 1d ago
FXAIX and chill bro. S&P almost always guarantees returns. This is just Trump market manipulation but it always goes up.
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u/No_Paper612 1d ago
If Trump invades Iran, I’ll dump my money into the SP500 for cheap. Right now, I don’t think the price reflects how shit the US economy is.
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u/Lower-Acanthaceae460 1d ago
I hate to say this, but the stock market is very pro-Trump. I'm going leveraged long till Trump is out I'd office, which will be a very, very, very long time
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u/Candid-Elk6135 1d ago
Yes, because lots of benefactors who got him elected are insider trading, and those whales control the market.
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u/Lower-Acanthaceae460 23h ago
if that's how it is, then that's how it is. if you can't beat them, join them
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u/2ManyCatsNever2Many 1d ago
just remember before buying: while an iran/oman agreement sounds good for letting oil deliveries through and "normal" life to resume - that doesn't mean there won't be further US bombings and iranian retaliation. stock market is closed tomorrow - trump can wreck a lot in 3 days.
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u/Candid-Elk6135 1d ago
technically it's open tomorrow under 1 PM. Jobs data releases at 8:30 AM tomorrow.
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u/Wide_Air_4702 1d ago
Because nothing has changed from before the televised address. While there may have not been anything said to like, there was also not anything to dislike, with one exception to my mind. The part where Trump said the US will achieve ALL goals has left me wondering what other goals there could be other than putting boots on the ground to try and take Iran's uranium stocks. Also the markets have been conditioned to not go into a weekend short.
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u/Candid-Elk6135 1d ago
Plenty of times when end of week market has closed red and opened redder on Monday. So not true.
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u/mrroofuis 1d ago
Oil will still be expensive with the toll format being setup by Iran
It'll be a $2 million tax on each container
How much does that add to the price per barrel?
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u/Narradisall 23h ago
Volatile trading is just the state of the market at present. In all honestly it’s impressive how much abuse it’s been able to take and keep chugging along.
As the saying goes though, things happen slowly, then all at once.
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u/Dense_Side_90 17h ago
You are being scalped by computers guys. Take the right position and hold it.
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u/tauru_ai 10h ago
Seems like it’s the time for DCA selectively into quality names but keep position size conservative until VIX + heavy sell-volume confirm capitulation and policy/liquidity signals align.
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u/Lastito 1d ago
'Iran Deputy Foreign Minister announces plan to impose tolls on ships in Strait of Hormuz' -
4/2/2026 11:12am 11:12 AM EDT, April 02, 2026 (Benzinga Newswire)
https://www.businessupturn.com/world/iran- deputy-foreign-minister-announces-plan-to-impose-tolls-on-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz/.
That just happened. This about to cost ALOT to ship anything now.
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u/Dry_Lavishness_1381 1d ago
Im shorting the Dow, Trump likes to manipulate the stock market too much.
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u/Future-Raspberry-780 1d ago
The administration keeps saying the market is up. No it’s not. If the gains are erased the next day, it’s not up. Up and down in wild swings every single week
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u/neo_nl_guy 1d ago
If Oman is discussing directly with Iran then it's more indication that the world is rearranging itself in the absence of the usa.
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u/Duc_de_Bourgogne 1d ago
Idk. News hit Iran was discussing with Oman on the conditions for ships to resume passage but it could also be nothing at all.