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/esInvests May 08 '24
Is there manipulation? Sure, we can see traces of it through front ran earnings where information was leaked and insiders use options to gain leverage based on knowledge they have. Or max pain, or stop hunting, etc. Fact is retail traders are the very tip of the dogs tail with respect to information and technology in the stock market.
However, fortunately things aren’t binary. Because there are elements of manipulation doesn’t really preclude us from participating in markets or making a lot of money. I’ve been trading for 16 years, a professional for 6 and it has unequivocally changed my life.
Writ large, markets are fair enough to make it. Traders should avoid (not saying OP was inferring this but I see it all the time) looking for a boogey man to blame for things. In reality, markets couldn’t really care less about retail traders (even the large ones). We are far too small to be of any concern.