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All you people saying that this was anything but a severe major event have not been trading too long or you don't know your ass from a hole in the floor. This was a major event not just some arbitrary event that is normal. Serous cash was lost here and could be lost in an event like this. Get your head out of your ass and know what has happened here. JensG, I called this event a financial act of war on a different forum but some said that statement was on the top. I concur with you, this was a war like move on the part of the Swiss the supposed neutral country....
No doubt it was severe, it was gigantic, it was egotistical, and it was brutal.

But large market moving/game altering events appear to occur with regularity, and will continue to do so since the world realises that the entire game is leveraged to the hilt and a crash is coming.

The announcement last year of Western QE was another illustration of a central bank coming out of the blue and altering the game.

In the words of MacGruber - The sport is changing, but the players will be the same.