Quote from gettingtooold:
Considering the fact that traders must hide their orders to assist in exiting or at least better assist,
the constant flow through of limit orders prices with the ECN's, locked markets, brokers ?? technical problem failures during rallies, stock price moves premarket or during trading hours which cause the stock to move over 50percent of the stocks regular? range
the fact a stock gets upgraded a few days before it is to report
the fact insiders have 30days to report they have sold shares, the fact corporations give low expecations to beat expectation to create a bull market,
market markers goal of maintaining the market within a specific channel as per instructions?
negative news is cast aside as the market has already taken it into consideration? an example is oil will not effect the economy until 90 dollars, don't know about you but a lot of people I know are definitely being hurt by the price of gas. the list goes on
The market rallies until the big boys say so.
They give us traders the opportunity to have a few crumbs as do a few thousand shares really make any difference in the skeem of things.
We both need each other, high, lows for the year allow bears/bulls to make money. After all does any one really know what a stock is worth, we have all seen what creative accounting can do.
Manipulated you bet ya. but that god, could you imagine if all stocks moved like msft. We need the volitility, I just hate being on the wrong side.