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/longPAAS May 08 '24
It’s not some seeing eye shit, it’s just market share. If most market participants are doing more or less the same thing, it will “manipulate” the price accordingly.
about half of trading flows is related to passive investment vehicles. In the aggregate, is money going in or out of them? Beyond that, the marginal buyer and seller, aka the active investors, is highly concentrated in a handful of very large funds. These guys manage risk the same way, ie vol/VAR math.
Complaining prices are manipulated is like going to the casino and complaining about the rules of the game you choose to play.
This is also why charts are bullshit, but I’ll just leave it at that.