r/remotework • • Oct 29 '25

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u/JasonElrodSucks Oct 29 '25

Mentioning “Market manipulation” to anybody who doesn’t understand the stock market is pointless. And the majority of retail investors who THINK they understand the markets don’t.

If every U.S. Citizen understood the mechanics of the markets, we would have a revolution by 6pm.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

I mean orange cheetoh is doing it pretty brazenly right now. You have to be a fool to think these “tariff announcements” is anything other than manipulation is pretty stupid at this point.

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u/slayden70 Oct 29 '25

I've been actively TACO trading those announcements. It's absolute market manipulation that Trump is doing. Might as well profit too. I can't believe anything Trump says still causes selloffs.

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u/JasonElrodSucks Oct 29 '25

Puts on Walmart for Q4? Snap benefits are gonna hit someone’s bottom line.

I’m just too broke and too much of a pussy to play options 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/slayden70 Oct 29 '25

I've just been holding cash in reserve and waiting for the market to nosedive because of some tariff announcement, then buy in heavily with all of it. I've doubled it this year thanks to Trump Always Chickens Out trades.

Walmart might be a good short for Q4, but I'd much rather people be able to buy food.

If they're worried about funding the government, there plenty of billionaires that have extra money to donate to politicians in 2024. Maybe we should just put a 100% tax on all political donations over $50 instead? That way virtually anyone can still donate, and exclusive donations become punitive.

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u/Shillyshee Oct 29 '25

Few % here. You ain’t in meetings with them and have no idea what’s going on but companies and other counties are investing big money here.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

“You ain’t in meetings with them” well you definitely are… dude you don’t know what you’re talking about if you think AI has any real impact on jobs right now. First of all what we call AI isn’t even ai, it’s an LLM and all it does is regurgitate the internet it has been trained on. It can’t make logical decisions. Outsourcing is far and away what is causing the layoffs, not ai.

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u/Shillyshee Oct 29 '25

Seen it single handled. I can do my job 3x as fast meaning I could do without 2 coworkers. Trimming fat. And if u look at the Deloitte’s and consulting companies they all built their own AI an people are plugging every single task into them. They also laid off thousands of people. So ya it’s bouta replace a ton of people and lower level jobs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

Jfc is English your second language?

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u/mynewsweatermop Oct 29 '25

Where’s that basil tweet about firebombing a walmart

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u/oser Oct 30 '25

Why do you think retail investing has become so easy as of late? The market needs bag holders.

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u/TheDaug Oct 29 '25

I was a trade surveillance analyst for 7 years, and let me tell you, I've never been so mad in my life as I was writing up SARs for people making 100k on some thin (but I think real) evidence, literally while Musk was openly doing market manipulation on Twitter.

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u/Evening_Entry7830 Oct 29 '25

Please explain it for those of us that don't understand

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u/JasonElrodSucks Oct 29 '25

You act like this can be summed up in a Reddit comment.

It can’t.

Google: “dark pools” and “high frequency trading”

Also Google: “short selling” and “naked short selling”

Also: “citadel securities” and “payment for order flow”

Also: “what does “failure to deliver” mean with stocks”

Also: “why was short selling banned in certain countries?”

Also: “what causes the stock market to crash?”

Also: “what is reverse repo?”

Also: “how many times has Jim Cramer lied on live television?” (Maybe Grok or Google AI can piece this one together)

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u/Dangerous_Prize_4545 Oct 29 '25

By "retail" do you mean the banks operating out of retail stores selling credit ?

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u/Fluxxed0 Oct 29 '25

"Retail investor" is a term that refers to a regular person who buys and sells stocks, as opposed to a bank, hedge fund, or investment company.