Manipulated Stock Market, Watch the last 30 minutes of Trading
Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation Aug 26, 2009 - 12:46 AM GMTBy: Graham_Summers
Through this year and the last, the last 30 minutes of trading has been a critical point for manipulation. Countless times the market has shown signs of breaking below critical resistance points, only to have stocks rally sharply in the final 30 minutes of trading. Indeed, there were even several days in which stocks actually reversed losses to close at a gain all in the final 10 minutes.
This is not coincidence.
As I’ve noted countless times on these pages, this market is being manipulated… HEAVILY. And these last minute rallies have come at the hands of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and other large Wall Street firms. I know personally of at least two instances in the last two weeks in which JP Morgan stepped in and bought 1,000 S&P 500 futures at critical points, pushing the market higher just when it looked about to break-down.
You can see this in the below chart of the S&P 500. Stocks staged late day rallies on August 6th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, and 17th (that’s only the last two weeks!) The most critical rallies came on the 10th and 11th. Without those, the S&P 500 clearly was heading for 980 in a very rapid fashion.
It’s important to note that this late day manipulation can only last as long as there are equity bulls who believe in it. That is, buying a ton of futures only kicks off a rally in stocks if there are enough stock bulls who believe that someone in the futures market knows something they don’t. Much like in poker, you can only run the table when you’ve got a patsy or two to pony up the cash.
And the stock market ran out of patsies last week.
The above chart shows the S&P 500’s daily action in one-minute increments. As you can see, traders shot for late day rallies on both the 17th and the 18th (yesterday). Both days, they failed to get enough bulls to buy into the manipulation (stocks rolled over in the final minutes). They did manage to stage a major rally at the end of the week, thanks largely to options expiration and Bailout Ben pumping $46 billion into the system.
However, now with options expiration out the way… and in light of today’s turnaround to the downside, I’d argue that:
- The bulls are out of steam.
- Reality is taking hold.
Stocks are SEVERELY overbought now. And yesterday’s turn-around collapse looks to be a herald of things to come. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the S&P 500 back at 980 very shortly.
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Graham Summers: Graham is Senior Market Strategist at OmniSans Research. He is co-editor of Gain, Pains, and Capital, OmniSans Research’s FREE daily e-letter covering the equity, commodity, currency, and real estate markets.
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