As investors sold futures to protect themselves against a crash, the cash price of shares was driven down as well.

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The constant onslaught of cash into these markets causes a frenzy in the price of the futures contracts and drags the spot prices ever upward.

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The price of the cash index (we were doing MMI) was way, way above where the futures were trading.

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