Is the Stock market being manipulated by institutional investors? Are we in for a crash?
538087
No, they just want to make big money.\nWhere does the big money come from? Institutional investors!\nYou see, they are actually fighting each other. We just get hurt as we get closer.
370302
An indivdual one probably doesn't influence it that much, unless you're LTCM.  A lot of them are momentum driven, so they increase general volatility on the up and down moves that happen naturally.\n\nEdit: Now that I think about it, penseur's argument is pretty accurate.  By the way, penseur, your email is unconfirmed, so you can't receive private messages...
902151
If you are asking this question now, then you really need to learn more about fundamental and technical analysis. Motorola showed a definite downturn signal on 17 Oct... a grand evening star signal, ADX showing a bearish dominance for the first time in 2 months, MACD increasing in downside momentum, a break below its 30MA and subsequently its 50MA... these are definite and undisputable signs. At that point, every technical strategist would have bailed out or at least taken half profit. \n\nYou are in a state of panic because of your complete lack of investing knowledge. What you need now is really to polish up on your investment knowledge before you commit any more money to the markets.\n\nI have been a technical swing trader for the past 11 years and retired at 28 years old. If you are curious about my trading method, please visit http://www.mastersoequity.com \n\nRemember, the more knowledge you have, the lower the risk and the faster you will get richer.\n\n\n\nHope these helps.\n\n\n.
1187129
Probably.  The Indian market isn't as regulated as US or European markets.  But it's easy to become overly paranoid when one's money is on the line.  My experience is that if you invest in a sound Indian company, like Wipro or Infosys or an ETF like the India Fund (IFN) for the long haul you're going to make money because, let's face it, nothing is going to stop India's growth.  But in the current market, with the number of hedge funds and margin buying involved in a relatively thinly traded market (the market capitalization of the Indian market is rather small compared to the U.S.) any freak out by the herd will result in dramatic crashes like we saw in May.  India is more democratic than most developing countries, they have more PhD's than the U.S., they've recently allowed foreign companies to open factories without having an "Indian partner", so the country is moving toward a freer market in order to attract foreign investment.  I wouldn't get too paranoid.
938483
First, the real or imaginary "click fraud" is not manipulating the stock price.  The stock price is another stupid bubble that will burst upon headlines any day now--the irrational exhuberance cannot be sustained.  See the CNN/Money/Fortune article.\n\nSecond, there is a lot of fire and fuss over the definitions of clicks and it isn't just Google that is in the dispute.  Notice the businessweek articles.\n\nStock prices are not Google's manipulation, from what I read the people at Google are just perplexed at why their stock is flying so incredibly high--but they are pleased as can be that it is.
659312
a gaurantee? the stock market has been built on the risk of people spending their money and hitting it big... then there are the stories of people jumping from the 122nd floor after they lost it all of course.\nso you have to factor that in.\nnothing good is free. or everyone would be doing it.\nnothing good/great in life comes without a risk.\neducate your self if you plan to do this. investigate the company, market, and the stocks. it takes time  to know what is the right direction... and even then you may be wrong... but being prepared to make an educated decision is your safest bet. and thats what the stock market is....a bet\ngood luck tho!
537373
There was a scam where in people maipulates some IPO's of TCS etc.......and the DMAT accounts of these people were with broking firms like karvy, indiabulls, dhfc, oswal wtc....so as of my till the enquery is complete...thy r banned.\n\nIf u want any good recomendations u can contack...\n\nhttp://spaces.msn.com/paise-pe-paisa/
837511
Interesting question... but what's interesting is that institutional investors invest far more than that in a single company.  As for an individual willing to take on that risk, you see the answers written before mine.  I'll suggest something else: Shufflemaster (SHFL).
9092
There's a latest review on this site\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=19
914768
They would invest in a variety of markets, not just one, the risk would be hedged and spread among for example, Real Estate, Petroleum, Banking, Forestry, Bonds, Futures, this type of thing, the emerging markets that you mention are all thriving markets now, the volitility has more to do with inflation rather than interest rates. When a market is growing quickly as in the case of China which for 2007 forecasts almost double digit figures and Brazil forcasting 5% to 6% growth, the inflationary forces are what have to be controlled. Brazils elections were recently an eventful occaison but I did notice that the markets ( currency in particular) hardly flickered!  good sign of increased  stability really.
61898
Insider transactions and changes in institutional holdings have the net effect of increasing the amount of firm-specific information in prices.  These results are consistent with the notion that insiders have the greatest access to firm information, while analysts have more limited access to this information.
607234
It sure can be. Ive studied it off and on for awhile. Lots of different angles to using the stock market. Depends on the person. \n\nGet a few books, study up on the angles that particular person used and how it worked for them. Figure out what you feel comfy with.
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ONE DAY WONDER and here's why:\nGenerally a one shot news item that is of no direct consequence to the market itself is quickly forgotten.  However, yesterdays news gave hope to the theory that the Fed was done raising interest rates for the time being.  Today however, 4/19/06, the morning news told of March CPI (inflation) being up .4%.  Multiply that by 12 months and it is an annualized inflation rate of 4.8%...much higher than Jan and Feb, which together averaged an annualized 3.8% The stock market HATES inflation because it a precursor to higher interest rates and that hurts the market by making bonds more attractive and also because higher interest rates hurt business profitability and slow down the economy. Today's bad news neutralized yesterday's good news.
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As opposed to what?\n\nI think you're asking the wrong question, and you give no indication of market knowledge or direction.\n\nIs this stock going to buck the downtrend in the stock market? Today, we are finally getting a bounce after a 900 pt decline. Are you calling the bottom here in the market? \n\nYour money is probably better off where it is, regardless of which stock you've heard to be recommended or the latest hot pick.
428690
Consider that if such a program were to exist using artificial human intelligence or neural networks, and it was successful , then whoever owned the first one would already be the King of the Stock Market.  You're right about program trading which is very short term.  However the stock market is not a pure science and cannot be predicted longer term, with any certainty, using algorithms.  It is actually part statistical science, partly an art, and partly understanding the psychology of the masses.
1186247
On the springboard of life, can't we invest our thoughts on a higher plane without the same stock answers. Can we not form a stronger bond without taking the plunge? I t doesn't take much to make the stock market nervous (notice how we refer to it as an organic entity?). I can remember analysts informing us that good news (better than forcasted) spooked the market. I can't recall the details, but the upshot was that the news, while being optimistic, could lead to inflation or deflation or recession, or who knows. Trying to read the tea leaves of the stock market will drive us all crazy.  Invest in companies, not stocks. Companies that have high growth yields. Anything else is like playing with Tarot cards.
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to a great extent.\nrise in intertnational fuel prices and interest rate hikes by US are keeping investors off emerging markets.