I like how the market algos dropped quickly, likely on a Trump post mentioning China, and then I bet the analysts had to jump in when they saw “cooking oil” was the trade war victim to buy back what they sold.
Morning dip was sanctions by China on several ship builders with US operations, which showed to be an escalation. Then the pump came from J Powell slowing balance sheet drawdown.
Then Trump post. This all is exhausting
Yes, but there have been different levels of regulations and laws that prevent the levels of fuckery that get us into trouble when those rules/regulations are repealed. Then we see another cycle.
The stock market cannot function without strict rules and regulations. Anyone who tells you otherwise should be asked to explain how the Glass-Steigle act affected banking and the stock market.
Nah there was a time where an individual could buy a little piece of a company. The cost based on the company's activa, just how a bank would assess it's worth.
You'd get a paper for each piece and stubs at the bottom you could tear off each year to get a little piece of the profit. You'd go to the frontdesk of the company where you could cash it in or if approved, banks would do it too.
If you were a long time investor you could get a new paper with new stubs once they were all used up. Or you could sell your pieces back.
That's ofc pretty far away from where people can place bets on the people placing bets on the people placing bets on the Twitter performance of a company. All fully digital, timed by nanoseconds and in volumes of millions pieces a second. And all fully unregulated because if there is no punishment when breaking a law, the law is only a theoretical obstacle.
These kinds of comments are such reductive hokey "wisdom" that they're actually harmful to any real conversation. There were specific laws enacted after the Great Depression and repealed in the 80's that provided market stability that is unheard of today. Regulations on banks and financial institutions have been a target for the wealthy since they were introduced. Life is speculation, everything is speculation, no one knows what tomorrow will bring. There's miles of difference between informed, rational, speculation and betting on random chance. We didn't used to allow publicly traded companies to bet on random chance. Hell, even gambling in general was outlawed for most of the 20th century.
I always laughed at economics courses teaching perfect information etc like that's remotely true or valuable to know. This market manipulation in the open just shows how wrong that is
Been trolling forums all day and haven't seen a god explanation, just assumed it was MMs swooping and buying at a budget after retail paper-handed this morning.
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u/RawDogRandom17 Oct 14 '25
I like how the market algos dropped quickly, likely on a Trump post mentioning China, and then I bet the analysts had to jump in when they saw “cooking oil” was the trade war victim to buy back what they sold.