When very bad news hits a thin tape, it can have a devastating impact.

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With an extremely thin tape this week, however, the market may bounce around in a wide range and moves may not carry much validity.

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Also, the tape is thin, with little size on the inside market, making it easy for the market to make quick jumps in both directions.

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Right now it feels like major market participants are choosing to park their money on the sidelines, and this thin, news driven tape is hard to trade.

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The tape has been dangerously thin and it seems like big players have been steering clear of the action.

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In one of such sessions, together with his doctoral student Konstantin Novoselov, he used a piece of ordinary sticky tape (which allegedly they found in a bin) to peel off a very thin layer of graphite, taken from a pencil.

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