There is NO DOUBT in my mind that the stock market is currently 100% manipulated by a few players. Yes, I’m saying that a small group of people who hold (or have say over) a large amount of capital decides if the stock market will go up or if it will go down. Sure, there will be definite market forces that will make their will bend and turn, but they will be the driving force. Today for example, a quadruple witching day, we saw huge volumes as expected yet the market barely moved. It was almost like all the trades were known before hand and the counter trades required to keep the market stable was placed there to meet the other side of the trade. Mathematically, it is impossible for a day where a huge volume of trade would not cause a significant move in the market either direction. It’s like looking at volume in terms of a “force” and its ability to move the market. Volume into stock means up, volume out of stock means down and so forth. So it is surprising that a huge force such as today did not move the market in any direction. The stock market has become just like Vegas! Some will win, most will lose, but the house will always take its share of the game. […]