market manipulation?

Quote from RL8093:

No, I do not believe mkt is manipulated. There are many reasons for the price action, some of which have been presented above and more are available if you decide to engage your brain cells.

Otoh, I could care less if it is manipulated as long as I can find a way to follow the action & harvest profits.

Sounds like you:
- haven't read 'Reminiscences' (his mkt was rigged but he still found a way...)
- can't figure out how to make a profit. I suspect your struggles will continue as long as you remain in victim mode....

R

- haven't read 'Reminiscences' (his mkt was rigged but he still found a way...)

he also said markets never change. so its still rigged. and livermore got very upset about certain types of thievery.
 
And BTW the WHOLE economy is rigged, hence why people are enslaved by debt bondage from birth.

I agree we all want manumission, but is it really possible?

so I guess its a matter of "if you can't beat em' , join em'" :D
 
livermore went bust many many times.. too many times for a good trader. and he eventually lost. why would you admire anyone like that?

plus markets do change. their agents might not but strategies, technologies, financial product innovation have changed everything and continue to do so.
 
Quote from Batman28:

cool guys, maybe you're right about shorts covering. still very interesting and difficult not to be skeptic at what happend and how it happend.

I truly honestly have never met a trader who used technical analysis.

thanks for your post RL8093 maybe I learnt something today. - ps. im not a trader.

Put it this way . . .

What do you think the traders known as "locals" in the commodity pits of the NYMEX, NYBOT, CBOT, or CME use in some of the buy/sell decisions that they make during the day?
 
Quote from Batman28:

I know the truth is when it comes to trading you shouldn't really care and just follow the market and make money. And I can imagine only losers cry about market manipulation, unfairness blah blah etc.

But ignoring all that, just putting it into perspective - wasn't the huge selling bit earlier a bluff? if in fact truth - why would the same forces buy it back? I'm not talking bout little guys trying to chase the market. I'm talking about those forces that are able to move markets.

clearly there is a reason for it? buying back cheaper? remember this is the day Goldman announces recession for 08.

I know how some of you smart guys like to talk about irrational market, randomness bla blah. but i don't really think this was random at all. if it was random the selling might ease pace and stop at a equilibrium level today. but it was PUSHED down only to be bought back heavily.

I don't want to hear trading strategies, making money bla bla, just think about what just happend, do you really think market wasn't manipulated?

I have my only strategy that has made me money for a long time. Sell high, buy low, then buy low and sell high. This most likely entails almost completely ignoring or fading what you here on the news or read in the paper. Look at all of the bad news coming out for oil, if you notice there are forces trying to push the price up over 100/bl but they just cant do it. I usually dont laugh at anothers loss, but when something or someone is trying to rig a market and gets left holding the bag when prices move sharply south, especially when its opec, i am rotfpimp (rolling on the floor pissing in my pants). When its the fed trying to cut rates when the dollar is plummeting, housing prices grossly inflated, surging inflation in commodities, and prices STILL go south, :D :D :D :D :D . AHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHHAH!!! chuckle shuckle. What is not funny is how the average american who does not speculate in the markets, now bleeds from a depreciating currency for the hopes that a few banks that made bad loans will be saved and a few speculators or gamblers trying to buy the markets at the absolute top can make a few more pennies. What these losers dont get is the markets are a zero sum game, any representation to the contrary is fraud. :mad:
 
Quote from Landis82:

Put it this way . . .

What do you think the traders known as "locals" in the commodity pits of the NYMEX, NYBOT, CBOT, or CME use in some of the buy/sell decisions that they make during the day?

Don't know - but I beleive they're essentially market makers. I guess they might use some statistical price ideas etc for their inventory to study supply and demand. but I doubt it if they ever move markets.
 
Quote from PARACLESE:

I have my only strategy that has made me money for a long time. Sell high, buy low, then buy low and sell high. This most likely entails almost completely ignoring or fading what you here on the news or read in the paper. Look at all of the bad news coming out for oil, if you notice there are forces trying to push the price up over 100/bl but they just cant do it. I usually dont laugh at anothers loss, but when something or someone is trying to rig a market and gets left holding the bag when prices move sharply south, especially when its opec, i am rotfpimp (rolling on the floor pissing in my pants). When its the fed trying to cut rates when the dollar is plummeting, housing prices grossly inflated, surging inflation in commodities, and prices STILL go south, :D :D :D :D :D . AHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHHAH!!! chuckle shuckle. What is not funny is how the average american who does not speculate in the markets, now bleeds from a depreciating currency for the hopes that a few banks that made bad loans will be saved and a few speculators or gamblers trying to buy the markets at the absolute top can make a few more pennies. What these losers dont get is the markets are a zero sum game, any representation to the contrary is fraud. :mad:


oh and ..... markets are far far from random. Everything in life including in the markets happen for a reason, whether you are aware of the reasons or not.
 
Quote from PARACLESE:

What these losers dont get is the markets are a zero sum game, any representation to the contrary is fraud. :mad:

isnt it a negative sum game when you add in fees?

unless of course, you're the one charging them. :)
 
Quote from PARACLESE:

I have my only strategy that has made me money for a long time. Sell high, buy low, then buy low and sell high. This most likely entails almost completely ignoring or fading what you here on the news or read in the paper. Look at all of the bad news coming out for oil, if you notice there are forces trying to push the price up over 100/bl but they just cant do it. I usually dont laugh at anothers loss, but when something or someone is trying to rig a market and gets left holding the bag when prices move sharply south, especially when its opec, i am rotfpimp (rolling on the floor pissing in my pants). When its the fed trying to cut rates when the dollar is plummeting, housing prices grossly inflated, surging inflation in commodities, and prices STILL go south, :D :D :D :D :D . AHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHHAH!!! chuckle shuckle. What is not funny is how the average american who does not speculate in the markets, now bleeds from a depreciating currency for the hopes that a few banks that made bad loans will be saved and a few speculators or gamblers trying to buy the markets at the absolute top can make a few more pennies. What these losers dont get is the markets are a zero sum game, any representation to the contrary is fraud. :mad:


PARACLESE a question.

I met a Phd trader once who i tried to impress by saying market is a zero sum game and he asked what pushes up the index? say e.g. SPX. why does it goes up?

anyways to the point, those who assume market is zero-sum arn't good game theorists.
 
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