Is The Market Rigged? Survey Says … ‘Yes!’

I'm sure the market is rigged, but even if it wasn't rigged the average investor would lose. Unless you have a financial degree, you have no business investing in stocks. Don't trust a broker either, they only care about themselves. My 401k is 100% bonds. Much safer that way.

Yes the stock market is definetly rigged using supercomputer systems that are faster than your thought process to make a trade and know exactly when to dump stocks . When the traders on the floor with that little wireless box you see them holding recieved the word they automatically dump or buy. If you notice the stock market has never, never ever been going up in the green for 7 straight days in a row, never. The lottery is also rigged using "Radeon" gas substances that keep the balls heavy that they don't won't to get picked. Every number of tickets combinations are sent to the main server. if you notice you can't buy anymore tickets after ten o'clock for you state games, why, because the server counts and place every combination based on the sun amount into the account base. If this game was random, don't you think that the same numbers would keep coming up again and again.

Madoff said she wishes he could rig a Ponzi scheme as big as Wall Street has with the stock market.

Is The Market Rigged? I don't think this is the right question. The question should be "Is the Market being run by corrupt dishonest individuals?" The Crony Capitalism is the key to the market troubles that the market has experienced during the last 30 years. The question should really be - who benefits the most from the current system? I strongly believe in the free market system with limited regulation and enforcement works - look at Hong Kong. The market always regulates itself when there is no interference from the cronies on Wall Street and corrupt government officials. However, there are so many walls in the system now that for an average guy or gal it is almost impossible to become wealthy. The market now is like a side show with a rollercoaster and side show characters. As a great Goerge Carlin said ��� ���The system is rigged and you aint in it���.

ITS RIGGED,, CEO'S AND TOP EXECS GET 1000+% MY 401K GETS 5%

the real rigging is the high frequency computerized traders who can deploy a phalanx of paid bashers on message boards coupled with an endless arsenal of naked short shares that can flood the market, thereby controlling the supply/demand ratio, essentially emasculating long term stock buyers and holders and pummeling them intol submission and buying their shares at rock bottom prices. I forgot to mention shock and awe stockprice drives downwards, taking out all the stop-loss orders and then allowing the price to rise again, picking up a few more shares along the way and then selling again until the price is high enough for another profitable :"Blitzkrieg" down to more stealing of shares aat rock bottom prices.-----such fun!!!!!!

It reminds me of the old days at the racetrack when the trick was trying to guess which horses had been drugged. The big houses usually tell the public to buy when they are selling. I always do my own analysis and never go with recommendations from the big players.

The question should not be "Are the markets rigged?" but "Are the markets manipulated?". The answer is "Oh, yeah!"

LookoutJoe

It's not just the insider information. It's also the hedge funds ganging up to short companies into oblivion or control entire markets via futures manipulation ala JP Morgan and the silver market.

The individual investor is looked at as a cat to be skinned by the huge investment firms. I wonder how much of my retirement account over the past decade went into the coffers of the greedy hedge funds and market manipulators like JPM when they were months ahead of leaving a sinking equity market and, most likely, led the plunge with shorting of the markets.

One of the previous posters had it partially right when they said that companies like Goldman-Sachs are selling when they are recommneding the genral public to buy. Not only are they selling the shares they own they are also aggressively shorting shares they don't own. The combined effect is to drive prices down much sharper than if they had simply sold owned shares.

I am 50% in cash, 50% commodities and will not consider re-entering the market until the debt/deficit problem is under control.

Well, what does "rigged" mean? The markets are a system of systems, each of which provides opportunities and constraints. Knowledge of these avenues and constraints creates advantage that my suggest some type of "rigged" game.

"The Markets" as many describe it, means the Stock Market. It typically doesnt regard other markets, like natural gas. The various "markets" behave very differently than one another. The stock market is ABSOLUTELY RIGGED. Institutional investors now represent about 90% of daily trading volumes. Computerized/algorithmic trading...exclusively driven by technical analysis today....represents the vast majority of institutional trading today. Regardless, fighting the flow of that stocks market is just an unrealized loss. What you think you know doesnt really matter if the big money opposes your trade.

You must also recognize that traders...meaning professional traders, market makers and coverage traders....are trained and so act to deceive whoever is opposing their trade. They communicate and behave in a multitude of ways to create a response by other traders that they will profit from.

On larger trading applications, like packaged products and bonds, including the CMO markets, there is no way any outsider can know what the bankers and book-runners can know about what comprises that packaged product. You ARE going to leave something on the table every time you deal with someone like Goldman, JPM or Stanley. Not that you cant make money with them, but they will ALWAYS make money off your actions or inactions.

They are all rigged and until you disconnect Wall Street from Washington DC, no regulatory body will ever be effective in eliminating the game-rigging.

Many times you see a stock perk up just before the big announcement. You know someone knew something and made $. Nothing is very (or rarely) done about it!

There's a steady flow of information from corporate headquarters to the market makers. Of course it's rigged. It's criminal.

Yes it's rigged but NOT becuase 2 or 3 guys madea few million on insider trades. That is garbage for the masses. It is rigged because hedge fund and portfolio managers wink wink when its time to sell and buy. The MM's have been doing this for decades and the small investor is always the bagholder.

Good interview - like this guy. No question its rigged but its rigged in more obvious ways then is reported here though. I am sure there are lots of insider "tips" which are wrong and the people involved lose money. My opinion most of this should balance or cancel out with the insider stuff that wins. When the rich make a bet and they lose then as long as the pay for it, then its good. This is the massive crime of the bailouts - everyone of them needed to lose no matter what the short term effect would have been on jobs etc. - but the crime was requiring the poor and middle class to bail them out in QE1, 2, 3, and beyond. They are protected from bad investments get their losses back or more, record profits and bonuses when they hide huge losses and law-abiding businesses comply with SOX and other crap and receive the hidden thieves of inflation, loss of the value of the dollar, and higher taxes which are still insufficient to keep up with the way they are pissing it away on spending. Its a macro level crime not micro in the details or whispers in the ears (aka. Martha Steward receiving tips from her broker). You can lose just as easy as you can make gains. Think about the absurdity of them being concerned had Martha received a tip where she lost the $40K instead of the gain - would anyone have cared? No!

look at past few days at 10 am each day they dive the market pick up shares then slowly ride the market upwards in afternoon only way to survive the market is buy quality companies and hold on for long term

People said the same thing about the glorious bull market of the 1920s - that it was rigged. Except insider trading was perfectly legal then, so they meant really, REALLY rigged. Insider information is surely being used quite often when the opportunity arises, since the temptation is great (witness Sokol's blunder) and insider trading cases are notoriously difficult to prove. They've only recently shown real progress in this area in prosecuting Raj and his cohorts. Martha Stewart was NOT convicted of insider trading; she got caught lying to investigators who suspected her of insider trading. The poor gal unwittingly wrapped up the investigation right there when they found out; from there it was just straight on to trial and prison and thank you very much Martha because we didn't want to try an insider trading case anyway because they're a pain in the butt. But again, yeah, I'm sure stuff like that goes on all the time and the market can be considered rigged.

People who reside on the top of Corporations most definitely have knowledge of that industry and if the stock is going to go up or not. The average investor like myself doe not have these insights and consequently is handicapped.

I have worked for a major corporation for 14 years years and have seen the reality

In sixties, whene you sell a certai stok say GE or GM you would have to wait 30 days before you can buy that stok again, Thus, it is this speed of trading that causes all the unfairnes to general investors. Bilions of shares traded daily isnightmare to honest investors!

There is no way to trace all insider info. The big players like Goldman Sachs have information and influence in the hightest echelons of the Obama administration. You can watch them and the Fed to see market manipulation on a grand scale but they get rich on the deals we never hear about.

Of course insiders do deals & have info that the average investor have no clue.If you are not an insider & have knowledge of the stock or company chances are is that you will loose.