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indie9197

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7. That's what I was going to say but you said it better than I would have.

Reply to rgbecker (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:17 AM

Mar 2015

Plus, it is not "investors" that move the market. Private investors are an extremely small percentage of the trading volume in the stock market. The Wall Street firms churn the market up and down all day using trading algorithms and taking advantage of large spreads in the bid and ask prices. They are making huge amounts of money whether stocks go up or down.

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That's what I was going to say but you said it better than I would have. indie9197 Mar 2015 #7

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