Everything from naked short selling, to government intrusion, granted  monopolies, fiat currencies and a host of other commonly accepted screwball behaviors have created market manipulation to such an extent that market prices are no longer market prices. They are manipulated market prices which amounts to a price point decided by the few government connected or Wall Street criminal money managers.

The small investor who wades into these market manipulations without foreknowledge, is toast.

Thinking a market is not manipulated means we have to ignore all of history. Any chance an investor with connections – usually government connections – can twist the rules or ignore them and engage in market manipulation and get a way with it, will see manipulation of all kinds unfold. Names like Jay Gould – famous for bear raids that look trivial today, or Jesse Livermore, or of course that famous bootlegger Joe Kennedy – all made their fortunes through market manipulation.

Still the markets functioned largely accurately determining prices. Now that function has succumbed to the market manipulation and the few that wield the levers of finance from their offices in Washington and New York – at the same time!
All of the current Obama regimes ministers or Czar’s are fresh cropped from Wall Street banks named Government Sachs, J.P. Morgan, or Citigroup.  There is no debating the incestousness except it goes way beyond that into full on unification.

Stock Market or Any Market - Manipulation Top to Bottom Corruption

There are no more markets – only Market Manipulations

Only manipulations exist. 70%+ of all trading volume is robotic high frequency trading. The rest is manipulated hedge fund traffic and institutional, with a smattering of the small potatoes individual sheep there for the shearing.

Precious metals – gold and silver  or potentially platinum – have purportedly been outside of the attack zone because no one can print up or digitally issue hard coins or hard bullion. Except the COMEX market is one of the most manipulated markets via naked short selling of wheat, sugar, silver, and gold etc. that cannot and will not be delivered. Ever. No penalties. No foul. No market manipulation seen nor heard.

The S.E.C. is more than ignoring it, they seem to be complicit. Really, though, we would expect anything different. Government policing government works brilliantly as it always has, for the government and those tied in with the totalitarian beast, just ask the guy shot in the head by an errant policeman. The policeman was found to have acted within the lines of his job – as found by internal investigations.   Despite him killing an innocent, unarmed man.  We can expect nothing but a blind eye when government passes judgement on Wall Street market manipulation, just like all forms of intergovernmental abuse judgements.

Fortunately, we have options. Get out of paper investments and into gold, silver, and platinum in that order. Get land outside of the country in places like Panama, or Brazil. Get rid of all debt because debt attaches us to a corrupt system.

Then let the system collapse on itself, as corruption rots the structure. Watch the dollar collapse and the markets collapse. Watch the derivatives go worthless and take down any semblance of credibility the Wall Street institutions had or the markets they manipulate.

Let the market be manipulated, let the stock prices be manipulated, but do not let your wealth, your efforts, your savings, your freedom be part of the market manipulation. Wall Street must fall without crushing us beneath it.