THE FIX IS IN: Manipulation: How Markets Really Work -

Stupid stuff. A trader does not care which participant does what. A trader follows price action. I don't care if it is small green people or flying elephants that pump or dump. technical analysis and price action gives you all the tools to study the markets and profit. Articles like that take your focus away from price action and into issues that don't matter to a trader.

IMO the USD will drop for a while but then long term rates will start going up in the US, the FED will have to raise interest rate while Europe will be going the other way and the USD will go up. EURUSD = 1.0000 for next year is very possible as Europe will go into social unrest and deflationary spiral. The European Union is in great danger having admitted as many as 15 unqualified countries form Eastern Communist bloc that have no money to buy anything from the oversupply of Germany and France but always ask for more money.

I see US to be the future, not the past. Strong technological infrastructure, high quality labor, sufficient agriculture to feed people, huge untapped oil and gas reserves, a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons for deterrence,

Wake up people...
 
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Stupid stuff. A trader does not care which participant does what. A trader follows price action. I don't care if it is small green people or flying elephants that pump or dump. technical analysis and price action gives you all the tools to study the markets and profit. Articles like that take your focus away from price action and into issues that don't matter to a trader.

IMO the USD will drop for a while but then long term rates will start going up in the US, the FED will have to raise interest rate while Europe will be going the other way and the USD will go up. EURUSD = 1.0000 for next year is very possible as Europe will go into social unrest and deflationary spiral. The European Union is in great danger having admitted as many as 15 unqualified countries form Eastern Communist bloc that have no money to buy anything from the oversupply of Germany and France but always ask for more money.

I see US to be the future, not the past. Strong technological infrastructure, high quality labor, sufficient agriculture to feed people, huge untapped oil and gas reserves, a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons for deterrence,

Wake up people...
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A trader does not care which participant does what. A trader follows price action. I don't care if it is small green people or flying elephants that pump or dump. technical analysis and price action gives you all the tools to study the markets and profit. Articles like that take your focus away from price action and into issues that don't matter to a trader.


Good post ....

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Another point being one is hopeful many participants continue their varied beliefs....

This is what a market is....

Another point being is that the marketplace largely exists because there are those businesses which profit on re-allocation.....which naturally happens "somewhere" each day as news is sorted out by participants....

The most significant participants being program trading followed by newsworthy events....

THEY exist and prosper....

As can a daytrader....
 
I don't know about a daytrader, but a currency trader certainly can. My day will start here in a few hours, and end on Friday at 5pm.

I know from watching the currency markets that SOMEONE always seem to know something is in the cards before others do.

The Fix is most definitely in, but as another trader said, it doesn't really matter to us one way or another.

But, after we make all our money shorting everything in sight, we still have to live. If something should happen to our infrastructure, what good is all that money then?
 
Perhaps some would like to comment on the range of power the market movers have to their disposal.

If precious metals suppression is considered as a given fact how come gold has gone from 250 to a 1000$ an ounce this decade?

I once read a comment by someone who said he didnt believe the can move the markets but they can throw punches to amplify certain movements.

Agreed?
 
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If precious metals suppression is considered as a given fact how come gold has gone from 250 to a 1000$ an ounce this decade?
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Good point. Gold pays no interest, you actually pay to store it in a safe place, it cannot be wired, cannot be carried as currency because of metal detectors eveywhere,.

But many who sell gold and silver coins try to convince people of a conspiracy to keep price low so they conclude they must buy because eventually it will go up.

I keep reading such newletters for the past 20 years.
 
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Why attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained by stupidity?
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I believe it was Willem Buiter, a respected Financial Times columnist and life long economist, who answered that question with the opinion that the evidence on why we find the worlds financial system in the state it is in today to be really too overwhelming to blame it solely on incompetence.

Or have you read the following article (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice) by Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, who is of the opinion that the United states are being held hostage by a group of what he calls American financial oligarchs.

Just a few examples of critisism that can hardly be labeled as goldnut conspiracy drivle and should be qualified as such.

Ofcourse people will argue markets have been manipulated if you will for centuries now ever since the Tulip mania and before and there is no point in trying to find out who is really standing behind the curtain and sure there is a point to that but then again perhaps such an apathy can return to haunt the masses sooner then we think I guess the future will tell us soon enough.
 
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Yep, that's right, 1000 million is one billion. So, it would take 333 billion to take care of the US population.

So let's cover the tab.

Bill Gates-40 billion
Warren Buffet-37billion
Carlos Helu-35 billion
Lawerence Ellison-22.5 billion
Ingvar Kamprad-22 billion
Karl Albrecht-21.5 billion
Mukesh Ambani-19.5 billion
Lakshmi Mittal-19.3 billion
Theo Albrecht-18.8 billion
Amancio Ortega-18.3 billion
The Waltons-17.8 billion( I took just Jim and used his number)
Bernard Arnault-16.5 billion
Li Ka-Shing-16.2 billion
Micheal Bloomberg-16 billion

That takes out 17 of them for 339 billion. Just to play it safe.

Out of the Forbes 468, that leaves 451 of them with fortunes intact.

But, there are thirty people tied at 468. Bring the number up to 498. We can round it up to 500 for the other ties.

So, to really drive the point home, if 4% of the Forbes billionaires gave up their fortunes, that would cover the tab.

Now take away the half million or so that every American owes at birth, that leaves them with 500,000 free and clear.

That's the net worth of the top 17 richest people.

The top 17 will cover the bottom 333 million.

Get the point?
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You started with:

"But, just one of them could take one third of their fortune and make every man, woman and child in the United States a millionaire."

Now you post the nonsense about the top 17, and you are still off by a factor of around 1000.

And yet you state your opinions with such certainty and vigor.

To Cutten's point: lex parsimoniae. I tend to agree.
 
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I believe it was Willem Buiter, a respected Financial Times columnist and life long economist, who answered that question with the opinion that the evidence on why we find the worlds financial system in the state it is in today to be really too overwhelming to blame it solely on incompetence.

Or have you read the following article (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice) by Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, who is of the opinion that the United states are being held hostage by a group of what he calls American financial oligarchs.

Just a few examples of critisism that can hardly be labeled as goldnut conspiracy drivle and should be qualified as such.

Ofcourse people will argue markets have been manipulated if you will for centuries now ever since the Tulip mania and before and there is no point in trying to find out who is really standing behind the curtain and sure there is a point to that but then again perhaps such an apathy can return to haunt the masses sooner then we think I guess the future will tell us soon enough.
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This is the scariest graph I've seen in my life (slight exageration)
Look at the top half.

That part alone to anyone with 5 braincells or more should explain it in plain detail.

http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200905/johnson-chart.gif
 
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