Monday, September 7, 2009

S&P Futures/ETFs Being Used to Ramp up Equity Markets - Market Manipulation Evidence from Intraday Trading Profiles

As any day-trader (still left with money to trade) would tell you, these days there is some extremely suspicious activity going on in the equity markets. For the last few months, on several occasions the equity markets have ramped up in a matter of minutes, on no news whatsoever and on extremely low volume. Talking bubbleheads, would like us to believe that buoyed by the prospects of a V-shaped recovery, money that has been on the side-lines is moving back in, causing the market to ramp up.
We however would like to challenge this thesis by presenting evidence to the contrary from intraday trading profiles, which support our belief that S&P futures are being used to pump up the equity markets.

S&P Futures/ETFs Being Used to Ramp up Equity Markets - Market Manipulation Evidence from Intraday Trading ...

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