If you were selling 40 tons of gold, would you just hit the sell button on a market order and unload it in four minutes? The answer is an obvious NO. Nobody in their right mind would. But a bank who isn't dealing with their "own money" and is operating on instructions would. We have seen this time, and time again. As soon as gold gets to a critical support level, somebody with a fat finger comes in and unloads a bunch of paper gold. Someday we will see a report that banks are getting fined for manipulating the gold price (just like we saw on the Libor scandals). That someday cannot come soon enough.