Non institutional investors & traders (like you and me) have been at a tremendous disadvantage for decades.  The truth is that if you knew just how much we are  manipulated, on a daily basis, you might be outraged. 

 

     Virtually every investor or trader that puts their hard-earned capital at risk seeks to make sense of the markets and their risk.  The problem is that we are not given the right tools to separate fact from fiction. 

 

     We are left to sift through a deluge of information from both the financial and mass media that preys on our need to make sense and then manipulates us by giving us easy answers in the form of headlines, pundits and trading gurus.  If you have been disappointed by these expert sources, you are not alone. 

           

     It is commonplace to get daily headline explanations like “U.S. Equities Gain as Investors Rate Concerns Ease” only to see the market reverse later that day or the next. Subjectivity whatever the source, is just that.

 

     The reality is that there are so many factors in play that drive price in a global marketplace, at any moment in time, that we cannot know how the market will react in any given day to any one particular event or bit of news.  Nor can we rely on lagging indicators to tell us how price will behave.

 

     Still there are forces in play that do move the markets. Institutional traders use algorithmic trading and large amounts of capital to 'bend the markets' in the short term, and many of these moves  show correlation.