Market Manipulation

In case you were looking to try manipulating the market, here's a 'how to' document.

This is probably happening today:
[FONT=arial,arial,helvetica]There’s also nothing new about disinformation in the market place. But again, the scale was unprecedented. Sumitomo moved hundreds of thousands of tons copper out of European LME warehouses to make inventories look like they were disappearing. Meanwhile, the material was afloat or lodged in a warehouse not registered with the LME. A Chinese Government trading company took 100,000 tons off the market; when prices dropped, it became a “national stockpile.” Some was parked in Singapore and Korea . [/FONT]
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http://www.materialsmanagement.net/modern_mkt_manipulation.htm
 
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While Irecognizethat I'm a novice trader, I believe the market dymanics are in the process of changing again. The rules of the game are going to shift. It's not just my opinion, but some other folks who've been in the market for decades as well.

The discontinuation of M3 is a telltale sign IMHO.

Conspiracy theory my butt!
 
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Tom,

Your view that 2006 is shaping up to be a big year for the market actually parallels the kind of activities that article describes, or so it seems. I am expecting a big year too.

"You see, the PPT only needs to kick start the buying. Then the shorts buy. Then the Hedge Funds jump on the bandwagon in search of that elusive trend - either up or down - deciding it is going to be up, and keep the rally going. But by the time the Hedgies are buying, the PPT is able to get out (and their Wall Street friends who took the risk and bought with them early) at a nice profit, the shorts are out licking their losses, and we watch a waning rally with low upside volume, low advance/decline ratios, and a high number of New Lows - kinda like right now."

Sound familiar?:?

This next paragraph decribes the proposed change to mortgage tax breaks. It doesn't seem so bad on the surface, but that's at the current interest rates. Whatabout all those folks who still have ARMs? They will no longer get to deduct the full measure of that interest, assuming mortgate rates continue to rise. Of course this is still down the road a ways, but I would certainly want to get a fixed rate if I didn't have one right now.

"It means encouraging Joe and Jane Middle Class to borrow up to their eyeballs in debt to pay for basic necessities after their family job was exported overseas, and then once Joe gets on his feet again with a new lower paying job, yanking a huge chunk of the interest deduction on all the home equity debt he was encouraged to acquire so he has to bear a larger share of the nation's tax burden so Corporations can keep their breaks, and even get new ones."
 
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Interesting article coolhand.

"Why? It's simple, really. So that the Plunge Protection Team can hide its market manipulative, equity buying activities."

Come to think of it, we don't seem to get those big 300 - 500 point loss days like we used to. Plunge protection?

"When we presented the Hindenburg Omen analysis several weeks ago, we warned that the PPT would likely buy this market to stop the higher-than-normal probability that the market could crash. Why did we warn that the PPT would likely buy this market, and stop any potential crash? Because of the M-3 numbers"
 
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Spaf wrote:
Coolhand....Read your article. It could be fairly well on track. I've heard similar news that the babyboom generation could be in trouble as they get to the door of retirement.
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Trust me, I've read it and it resonates with me. The rules have indeed changed.
 
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Coolhand....Read your article. It could be fairly well on track. I've heard similar news that the babyboom generation could be in trouble as they get to the door of retirement.
 
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I hear ya. :)On one hand if this is really happening then maybe we should feel safer. But on the other hand it can alter the results of any investmentdecision made regardless of how much homework one does.
 
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Well I wish they'd get busy and start giving us more "up" days! I got a train to catch in 2010, heh.

Dave
 
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