I feel people, collectively, drive the markets. Their plans and actions take data into account. The diversity of such plans blankets the market in proportion the their capitalization.
Actions cause the dynamic we all enjoy. It is an amazing process to see something so huge as the financial industry continually moving in the face of the larger economic global system.
What is so very fotunate is that individuals can tap the total potential of the dynamic without affecting it within reasonable limits.
The present where all money making takes place keeps pushing the future behind it. Wouldn't be neat if we had at least one indicator that took into account the future as much as it took into account the past. Who's keeping all the future data unavailable, anyway?