This evening was the utterly PERFECT example of a speculator snapback effect in a supply/demand equilibrium market unaffected by news or long term trend. The games will change now and a new game will be at play once we enter European session. The ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Well... I don't really care if people disagree or agree with my theory. It works... Just made some nice $$ on my theory again as usual... Checked news feeds... No news... Crossovers downward. Just a bunch of speculators pushing the market behind ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

What those last two posters didn't understand is that I have nothing against manipulation. Manipulation is just a part of the game and a part of life. If you understand market manipulation and how it works it makes the markets more predictable ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

I just smiled at someone a while ago and wished them good morning and it cheered them up a little. Their internal state has been shifted slightly happier for a little bit. Pure manipulation at it's best. Now if were lucky this will cause a ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Yes... Most of those things are manipulation. What is manipulation? Manipulation is where you change something within a system that is at a state of equilibrium to your advantage or even possibly to the advantage of those within the system. If you ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone... Twitter has RSS feeds and most people don't know. Just use url or I mean SigmaSquawk in this RSS feed url finder... url And you get their twitter rss feed URL. That url I provided works on PC... Just checked it. ...

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Well... 90% of the hedge fund industry has underperformed the S&P 500 in recent months, but there are some hedge funds that have had solid 10%-20% yearly gains on average over the last ten to twenty years. Some quants manage 20-30%/year... And, ...

What indicators do Hedge Funds use or do they even use one?

Depends... I have a few different entry/exit strategies. Most of the time I am not paying much attention to pivots unless they get in the way... I use a proportionate projection system for entry at my signals. Here were some trades of mine the other ...

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Yea... To this day he still has a love of those SPX and SPY options. Only applies one positioning strategy. Vanilla single strike directional... I have daytraded those SPY options but honestly equities futures are so MUCH better...

What indicators do Hedge Funds use or do they even use one?

I just remembered this story from a friend of mine was who trying to reverse a stock a couple years ago by selling out a large position by hitting it with large sell blocks at market suddenly. He was just playing around with manipulation. He soon ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

The actual reactions to news are controlled. Cramer on CNBC explained some of the manipulation tactics his fund use to use in this youtube video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOS8QgAQO-k Gapping the market. Hitting/bidding stocks with earnings ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Manipulating the markets in my opinion is not the most profitable way to trade. For those who don't understand the patterns very well brute force and control with a lot of capital is a way to make money I guess. Look at the ex Salomon traders... ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Those that buy low and sell high profit. Also, those that short high and cover low profit.

Market Manipulation Dynamics

I know a guy at a mid sized hedge fund. They use technical analysis for entry, have people continually monitoring all fed announcements and meetings, and have fundamental analysts. The fundamental analysts and fed analysis is used for decision ...

What indicators do Hedge Funds use or do they even use one?

The indicators I use are proprietary. Took me a few years to develop them and I am fully satisfied with the math... The indicators allow me to apply range, trend, and hybrid strategies. Well... Think about this... Here is a simple large scale market ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Big players attempt to manipulate turns in the market but they cannot control it fully in my opinion. If sentiment is pushing in a direction with enough force and momentum not even a central bank can stop it... I suggest you read Pit Bull by - ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

Here is the pattern as it plays out in the real world in a perfect scenario... It does happen quite a bit though. The perfect Elliott wave pattern. It is possible that the biggest markets are not all that heavily manipulated... The wave counts may ...

Market Manipulation Dynamics

The reality in the markets is that prices drive decisions and decisions drive prices. It goes like this... Global equity markets up... Italy/Spain bond auctions improve because of improved sentiment from global equity markets going up. Global equity ...

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Hey... Lets start a new type of joke. Like yo mamma, except in trading... If efficient market theory wasn't a joke... Gold would be worth an infinite amount because of how much central banks are going to print. If efficient market theory wasn't a ...

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