This feels like market mechanics doing what they do when liquidity thins out. You get a fast break lower once price slips through obvious intraday levels, stops get tripped, and systematic sellers lean in. That selling feeds on itself for a bit, not because everyone suddenly got bearish, but because that’s how these systems are wired to react.

Then you hit a level where selling pressure runs out, shorts start covering, and the same machines that sold on the way down flip into buy mode as price stabilizes and reclaims key averages. The snapback is a reflex. This is less about fundamentals changing in an hour and more about how a market dominated by algorithms, options hedging, and shallow liquidity can swing hundreds of billions on autopilot before most humans even react.