Absolutely. I'm just saying there isn't much justification to assume it was a mere mistake.
Particularly given the trades that show up just after the report was released, but before a person could conceivably process them and initiate the relevant strategy.
That alone suggests gamesmanship, even if the "early" trader went earlier than he meant to.
> Particularly given the trades that show up just after the report was released, but before a person could conceivably process them and initiate the relevant strategy.
Couldn't they be trading based on some natural language processing algorithm?
I mean, I know that traders are probably pretty anal about accurate clocks, but mistakes do happen.