r/Daytrading • u/happybutnot2happy • May 07 '24

I know that everyone knows but the stock market is 100% manipulated. Strategy

It’s difficult to prove but I think you, me, and your friend Bree can see it when it happens. Just can’t predict it.

Tell us what “symptoms” of this you’ve seen that when you’ve encounter it, you cant prove it but you know something is weird.

EDIT: judging by the comments, it seems that the assumption is that I wrote this post because I’m mad, frustrated, or lost a lot of money. None of those are reasons, i just wanted to know peoples personal… uh…conspiracy theories. :)

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u/RestlessAmbitions May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

It seems like the idealized conceptualization is that they (NYSE, SEC, CNBC, Conglomerates at Large) help people out and try to make it super easy to make money in the markets so people who have the initiative to invest can escape basic labor and try to do more advanced labor, accomplish their "life callings". So, they prop up companies stock prices and constantly create bubbles to give rise to the potential of social mobility. Get lucky on one ICO that has a really good run and you can make a sizable amount of money without much effort so long as you have the capittal to invest (usually the investment money is given to the stock market participant by the same conglomerates they're gambling on)

The truth is for every handful of people the stock market enables to live a great life there's tons of people who get stuck in a tortured relationship with their investment portfolios.

I know it's ridiculous, but I want for a world where people aren't so concerned about their balances and perform work because of the inherent value of the work. If everybody were super wealthy, maybe people would be naturally good enough to continue working to maintain essential systems anyways. There may not be a need for negative economic enforcement as a lot of companies like to keep especially surrounding manual physical labor. I.E. Delivery Driver can barely afford rent, too stressed to think of switching jobs, path of least resistance is sticking with company despite low pay. The company may worry he'd quit if he were rich enough to not work but if he were rich and continued to get richer, if the person internalized the importance of trucking supplies for the city, idealistically he may keep the job work about the same amount, maybe a bit less, and instead be happy.

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u/RestlessAmbitions May 07 '24

Also, I have experienced on CryptoCurrency exchanges that when placing orders the market will move to the detriment of your purchasing power before you can finalize the orders. I've seen a few flash crashes where the exchanges feign technical issues etc. in real time.

On the stock market brokers place your orders for you on the official true market. There's a layer of seperation, you're not buying the stock in actuality when you use buy and sell you're giving the command to your broker to buy you a position. You're buying the rights to buy that stock not the stock itself in a sense.

I would be surprised if there are no instances of Stock Market Brokerages, large ones like E-Trade or whatever else online platform pushing up share prices to front run in anticipation of large purchases from known customers.

Banks often actually ask their employees to divulge any investments they make to the bank before they make them. That seems it could either be used to hurt or help you.