Stock Market via Schwab & Think Or Swim software

I don't know much about the stock market, but I do know IT, software, accounting and statistics. I notice a lot of disturbing trends.

I'm aware of volatility, however I'm also aware of how corrupt the stock market is and the behavior of certain individuals involved with it. I'm also aware of the blatant market manipulation in the form of media. I've seen some of the largest financial news reporting organizations, like Bloomberg, publish ludicrous, patently false, dishonest and completely fabricated articles, because they have a certain position on a stock they're writing about. Yes, it's supposed to be unethical, so they attribute the article to some unknown intern if people dig into it so they wont have to take responsibility for it. I've made a few web posts, pointing out such articles and questioning how Bloomberg for example, is doing such fake reporting, those posts are bland, inquisitive and simply point out the egregious errors in the reporting and the posts are deleted by admins.

The media can certainly have an effect, but more for longer term positions. The media isn't so finely tuned to manipulate day trades though. For manipulating on a small timescale, there are other means of unethical and probably illegal manipulation.

One must consider that the platform has my identity, they know me. They know every buy, stop loss and apparently, even style. So whats to stop them from "targeting" an individual? Absolutely nothing. Given a brokerages access to the best tools and vast sums of money to counter an individuals positions, it's quite easy for them. It's bizarre though. It's statistically improbably. It seems obvious.

Another interesting thing to point out, is mouse-over action, or limit order position. I would say simply loading a stock into the chart has an effect, moving the mouse pointer over it and absolutely putting a limit order below the existing price, causes a bump up. One would need to move the order higher to buy, over and over. Anyway, mouseovers and limit orders somehow magically push it up, like 2 opposing magnets push each other away, a limit order in the clutches of the mouse pointer, somehow magically has that effect on the share price. Seems a bit weird.

The trades shown here are generally momentum trades, short term trades meant to be held only for the day. After a serious of huge media campaigs, i.e. tons of bullshit press releases diminished long positions, it made it impossible to hold anything long, regardless of what it was. Weeks, months, years, of seeing fan favorite incredible companies be held down by barrages of nonsensical nothingness.

Starting with SOUN, Sound Hound Ai. First I will mention that, there are a few trends that happen, always the same. Within 10 seconds or so of a buy, regardless of the stock, the sector, regardless of market cap, volume, or any of the hundreds of silly charts and magical formlas and crystal balls, the stock freezes, volume slows momentarily. Next, depending on the stock, apparently the sentiment, their desire to short a stock, amount of their holdings, it drops and it does not come up again or it suddenly trades flat, indefinitely. If there is a stoploss set, only, absolutely AFTER the stop loss liquidates the position, then it immediately goes up again after causing a loss. This is an 80% likelihood, however once the short positions counter my trades, that momentum is gone and may continue to plummet. The 10 second period of time after the initial buy occurs, is my focus, becuase it's statistically impossible. Obviously tagging my stoploss, then reversing course, is curious too.

Here's another SOUN trade, with the same results.

Let's take Tesla for example. A very much social media oriented stock, we'll say it's networked quite well. Schwabb stopped putting the buy/sell arrows on a lot of the charts despite the settings, so I had to show the sell point manually.

Of course TSLQ is going to behave the same as seen below.

Yes, I know there are valuations, fundamentals, charts, earnings and financials. But for this discussion, I'm focusing on more granular aspects.

It's really gotten so bad, I talk with friends and I'll say: "I'm going to buy SOXS, watch what happens, you should go SOXL" I'll watch the SOXS underlying holdings, a lot of semiconductor stocks, all suddenly shift, as well as the ETF. I'm right at about 95% accuracy when I do it.

Here's another social media one, with crypto emphasis. RIOT blockchain.

I like RETL, which is an ETF that focuses on retail shopping.

Here's a random one, AGL. Guess what, same results.

Let's try Albemarle, or ALB. Ok!

Applied Materials (AMAT)

How about AMD? I'm more of an Intel fan, but let's take a look.

Well, why not try some AMDL?

ACB, or Aurora Cannibis

Beamer (BMR)

Branch Out Food (BOF)

BOIL, which is natural gas, clearly a volitile stock and horrible ETF, but for 1 day, lets see how it does.

Biopath Holdings (BPTH)

Here's COIN, another crypto and super social media fave.

DELL, the most horrid PC available, perhaps their server chassis are good. Maybe not!

DRIP. Looks like gas won't get more expensive on this day!

Faraday Future FFIE. Well, I believe in EV's, so I got into all of them, very small. Then the whole EV market collapsed over the next few weeks to months and I gave up on them.

FNGU, go tech! Maybe not....

Dare I say, it seems like just preparing to enter an order, the position of my mouseovers, the screen I'm looking at, whatever else, is enough to get some selloff action prepped and ready to go.

Hecla Mining, HL.

iRobot! IRBT.

KOHL'S was donig well in the media and sales were strong. Lets see how that affects things.....

Back to the EV foray, NKLA, with quite a colorful histsory of shenanigans.

Is this real? Well, lets see. REAL.

Go Rocket Lab! RKLB. Or maybe not.

Woops, the DOW suddenly flatlined, I wonder why? SDOW

Care for some ocean cargo? Let's got for a ride (a short ride)

Robotics (SERV)

How about TravelZoo, TZOO. I wonder what that huge volume is there on the right, hmmm.

Here's AAL, probably not a good choice as AAL is painfully slow anyway.

Here's AMDL a few days after the DeepSeek Ai hit the news. AMD isn't about "Ai" or it's hyper-pumped utility.

AMD is a core component in half the worlds computers and will remain so, it's generally AMD or Intel, with some newer chips making their way into computers.

The blue arrow indicates where I moved the stoploss much lower on IBRX. Apparently share quantity doesn't make a difference.

Here we go with NVNI

OKLO went with the "trade sidways" effect as soon as I bought an astonishing 1 share.

Ok, now for a reasonable ETF. SOXL. Let's see if it has the same effect. Of course it does!

Let's try for NVD! This purchase was made at exactly 10:43

and here we see NVDA bottoming at exactly, you guessed it, 10:43! Wow, it's so coincidence ;)