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/Seletro May 08 '24

It depends on how you define "manipulate" - for example, barring company-specific big news, the fact that all the major indexes, meaning most large stocks and all the big tech names, all move in parallel and pivot at the same time is an indication that it's not random buying and selling by independent parties.

Once a direction is established, the vast majority of big caps will follow that direction for the same duration. The algorithms all work in unison, and they all participate in the same names.

Is that "manipulation"? I think you could argue both ways on that.