It was the market correcting itself. The PPT tried to hold it up all day (see diagram in post #36), but as I've been preaching to the choir: it can only prop up the house of cards for so long.
Tomorrow will most likely be a bad day due to the short ban coming off tonight. I"m predicting an 800 point day tomorrow, and although the PPT will be hard at work to stop it, we will be in the 8000's by close Friday.