[Starwind]

Do you actually think that they are going to announce or admit to any market interventions?

No.

Does a statistical correlation exist with any large tradeing program? Yes. If the PPT is intervening, there are bread crumbs (somewhere) to follow.

Do you have any concrete suggestions as to where to look to confirm such PPT activity, or have you simply assumed that all the anecdotal reports consitute proof of the PPT and not some other effect (companies protecting their share prices and buybacks on the dips, for example)?

[arete]

Do you have any concrete suggestions as to where to look to confirm such PPT

Oh yeah, they send me an e-mail telling me when they are about to buy the S&P futures. Then they call the NY Times and enter it into the Congressional Recond. You really aren't getting this are you?

Richard W.