Is anyone else a bit suspicious of the amount and severity of the see-sawing in the major indexes lately?

You expect to see swings, but the past three months have literally been +2%, then -2%, often twice in one week! The indexes are all right where they started the year. Part of me wonders if the movers and shakers aren't buying and selling correctly ahead of all of these, effectively devaluing the little guy's investments. Volatility creates more opportunities to make more money, faster. Of course some people will win when that happens, but I'm getting very suspicious that the elite cabal is actually manipulating the markets up and down, selling, then creating fear, then buying, and then driving greed. Trading doesn't create real wealth, so every time we go through that cycle, that money they win comes in the form of smaller returns for the people who just sock their money in a mutual fund and leave it there.

Submitted May 21, 2014 at 10:23AM by AlchemyPhoenix http://ift.tt/1mYC0ZW