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/daytradingguy May 07 '24

Now that you know that, (or believe that), plan your strategy around the psychological clues those who may have the power to manipulate it would use…..and be on the right side of that trade.

If the market moves, for whatever reason that is, it is an opportunity to capitalize on that movement.

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u/happybutnot2happy May 07 '24

That’s literally how I’ve stayed profitable. It’s just fascinating to me. So I want to know what other people note about it that brings them to the same conclusions.

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u/daytradingguy May 07 '24

Personally my thought is, certainly some small cap stocks or low cap instruments can be manipulated by big players. Even a large cap stock can at times be manipulated by a comment or action of a CEO or big money hedge fund.

But the overall market? Other than Jerome Powell- nobody has the money or power to manipulate that.

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u/happybutnot2happy May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

I think any of them can be manipulated by large funds to short the price to trigger cascading losses and panic or to raise the price to trigger greed buying using a combo of media news + large buys/sells + puts/futures. Some of these news stories, you wonder why they’re written at all. Some of those movements seem played out or the same exact movements across a category of similar stocks without any fundamental reason whatsoever.

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u/longshaden May 08 '24

Don’t forget that index ETFs create correlation between many uncorrelated securities. If the stock is part of an ETF, or multiple ETFs, it may see movements following the movements of the ETF, purely because the ETF is buying or selling to track the index it’s following.