Can we discuss the suspicious sell off this morning?
u/BGID_to_the_moon ·
Reddit — r/StockMarket
· June 10, 2026 at 00:27
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The post claims a suspicious pre-market selloff occurred on no news, followed by a midday rally after POTUS announced Iran shot down a US helicopter, suggesting insider tipping.
Author’s thesis is that certain parties were tipped off about the geopolitical escalation and exploited the information for profit, indicating market manipulation.
Quality assessment: Speculation / noise – lacks hard evidence, relies on correlation and conjecture; top comments echo cynicism but provide no verifiable data.
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Markets had an unexpected and intense sell off this morning on virtually no news. I'm sure many people will cite 'profit taking' as the reason, but I seriously doubt it. QQQ experienced a 4% intra day drop which is a very material decline. Usually declines of this magnitude are triggered by unexpected news. Yet this morning, current events were very quiet.
Then at 1:00 PM eastern, the POTUS announced that Iran shot down a US helicopter last night and promised to retaliate. While it was already known earlier in the day that a helicopter went down, the reasons were unknown. The announcement that the Iranians shot it down made it a more serious issue.
I suspect certain parties were tipped off on these developments and sold off the markets in the morning. And once the news was announced at 1:00, the market inexplicably started to surge, almost like insiders were taking profits on their morning selling activity.
Overall, this was a very suspicious day of trading.