[Bartruff1]

Consider that there are BILLIONS of shares traded everyday by MILLIONS of individual traders worth TRILLIONS of dollars...each of those sales require cash or deposits up front....NO ONE can move the Market in any direction for even one day. Now, having said that, it is possible for Hedge Funds ...by ganging up on a individual stock can make that one stock move (usually down) by leveraging options on shares they don't actually own and this can effect a segment of the market for a short period of time. It is true that the market is full of sharks but no one group or government can move the entire market by buying or selling. The Fed can change rates and effect the market, but that is a different subject. Buy low sell high get rich buy Cobra's