Individual investors have been largely out of the market for a long time now, Linda. The bulk of the volume is the hedge funds and mutual funds; the former using programmed, high-frequency trading automatons.
They pushed the sell button today, and the programs reloaded some right after I noted the volume spike and nailed the reversal around 3PM. Also, margin calls likely caused the high-volume selloff at the end of the day.

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