You might ask what do traffic jams have to do with trading but have a look at the graphic below and think about how natural systems have a tendency to bunch, trend and have differing level of synchronization. Traders often think that markets are somehow distinct from the natural world – I think this view has largely come from economists who prefer a certain sterility of thought over the actual down and dirty approach of say ecology. Markets have much more in common with ecology than they do with economics.
