jezza888
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Retail traders are offered, through numerous bulletin boards, website, TV and newspaper adverts, online searches and various other means, a million and one different ways to trade the markets.
The variety of systems, methods, physchological views are amazing. Everything from 'the markets are a mirror of yourself' to buy and sell in overbought/oversold indicator A, B or C.... You can use trendlines and support and resistance. You can just look for breakouts and patterns, or put your money in the hands of a mathematical indicator.
Now, I may well be far off the mark here but, as far as I'm aware, the markets are moved by market makers and large corporations.
What I'd like to know, if possible, are there any books, or threads, or any ex MM's here that can shed light on how and why the BIG money makes their decisions. They aren't the ones who follow the market and try to pick tops and bottoms are they? They make the market and the tops and bottoms!?
how does the big money make the market. To keep it simple, we'll use the FTSE 100 as an example. Do they sit in front of pretty charts and decide where the market is going or do they move it? Do they go to physchologists to discover and change themselves? Are there so many diferent inputters that even they are trying to take probability trades and using GANN, Elliot wave, Oscillators and moon cycles or, are they just moving the market through very simple methods with normal reasoning and if any logged it T2W would they laugh at people using these over the top methods and talking about markets being mirrors!?
Surely, they make the market, decide on its direction and we just all follow, no?
Any directional advice for my quest of the basics of the markets appreciated...
Jez
The variety of systems, methods, physchological views are amazing. Everything from 'the markets are a mirror of yourself' to buy and sell in overbought/oversold indicator A, B or C.... You can use trendlines and support and resistance. You can just look for breakouts and patterns, or put your money in the hands of a mathematical indicator.
Now, I may well be far off the mark here but, as far as I'm aware, the markets are moved by market makers and large corporations.
What I'd like to know, if possible, are there any books, or threads, or any ex MM's here that can shed light on how and why the BIG money makes their decisions. They aren't the ones who follow the market and try to pick tops and bottoms are they? They make the market and the tops and bottoms!?
how does the big money make the market. To keep it simple, we'll use the FTSE 100 as an example. Do they sit in front of pretty charts and decide where the market is going or do they move it? Do they go to physchologists to discover and change themselves? Are there so many diferent inputters that even they are trying to take probability trades and using GANN, Elliot wave, Oscillators and moon cycles or, are they just moving the market through very simple methods with normal reasoning and if any logged it T2W would they laugh at people using these over the top methods and talking about markets being mirrors!?
Surely, they make the market, decide on its direction and we just all follow, no?
Any directional advice for my quest of the basics of the markets appreciated...
Jez