It looks like computers are running the stock market, even the drops

Financial News | 7 April 2025 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Is the stock narket almost completely manipilated? Who is actually selling (I'm not.). What group of people drove the indexes down because they hate Trump?

Look closely at stocks of some major companies and you'll see that they almost identically mirror the DOW Industrials. How could that happen without computer control? Check out GPN vs. the DOW.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Yhe whole thing is smoke and mirrors...

[vikingd00d]

>>Yhe whole thing is smoke and mirrors...

It’s not so much smoke and mirrors as a herd mentality. There’s very little diversity in the algorithms, they all make similar buy/sell decisions based on the same inputs, using the same metrics, even a lot of the code is shared.

Algorithms are lemmings, which is why there are circuit-breakers in the markets.

[brownsfan]

“Yhe whole thing is smoke and mirrors...”

I agree. The problem is, for a small potatoes guy like me, there aren’t a lot of options, (no pun intended).

[bitt]

P

[bantam]

THIS!

[Openurmind]

You Bet! And BlackRock in in possession of the Keyboard.

[Justa]

Buy low, sell high.

No smoke. No mirrors.

Dividend stocks pay to wait it out

[reed13k]

It doesn’t help that the market cap of the top 10 companies by market cap constitutes roughly 34% of the total stock market cap.

Top 25 companies by market cap are roughly 50%.

So there is going to be hard correlation between certain stocks and the overall indices.

[Myrddin]

The fintech computers pay a princely sum to be physically close to the Wall Street computers. Milliseconds in data transfer time matter significantly when your high speed transactions are skimming profits by selling small peaks and buying small dips. They can also drive huge excursions very quickly. The average human investor operating in the realm of hours to execute a trade is not able to compete.

[bankwalker]

There are a lot of assumptions in your post ...

[Blood of Tyrants]

The DOW, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all pretty much mirrored each other for a very long time.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Because the whole damn thing is FAKE AS HELL..earlier today it was up almost 1,000 points based on some BS rumor about Trump having a 90 day freeze on tariffs except China, then the second the White House said “Yeah thats total baloney” the stock went back down 800 points so what does that show, its all crooked phony nonsense

[central_va]

I do not know the truth but it all looks fake to me.

[central_va]

All I know there is now MEGA tons of cash sitting somewhere....

[linMcHlp]

Funds were pulling out their money, near the end of summer, and into the fall. Plenty of recommendations and suggestions followed that.

W. W. Granger investors pulled back, weeks ago.

“Experts” said, that Nvidia valuation was in trouble (though NVDA has a very good profit margin), while “experts” kept chirping about Boeing (BA) that is overvalued and overpriced (more than NVDA), and without a profit margin.

News headlines stirring the pot for calamity: TARIFFS! . . . that are negotiable.

Hair on fire “stock momentum” in a tailspin: Financial Engineering, “Making a Market.”

[pierrem15]

I was wondering the same thing. What’s the actual volume of sales compared to normal volume? Volume is higher than last week’s average.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Wonder who put the rumor out?

[CodeToad]

You bet.

[Mr. Blond]

I SEC what you did there.

[Major Matt Mason]

Likely the same criminals that created the 2008 pre-election crash.