u/Excellent_Cost170 ·
Reddit — r/stocks
· June 11, 2026 at 01:45
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What confuses me is not just that futures are green now. The market was already down nearly 2% during the regular session before the US strikes were announced, and even after the strikes happened, futures stayed negative for several hours. Then suddenly, sentiment flipped and futures turned solidly green. Maybe the market had already priced in the attack, maybe traders decided the strikes were more limited than feared, or maybe investors think escalation risk is lower than expected.
The 2% drop during the regular session raises the question of whether some participants were already positioned ahead of time, before the official news about the US strikes on Iran came out. What is the most reasonable explanation? We still still in a ceasefire right ...