Years ago, I watched influential analysts like Joe Granville be discredited by vested interests who had their reasons. After gaining notoriety for calling the market right, the gnomes decided that if Joe said A, they would immediately do B.

After a while, they were hoping that people would say "Joe Don't Know".

The same people are telling you the market is not manipulated.

So, I say to these people: "Two can play your game."

The whole thing reminds me of the double agent spy game, or the game of baseball where the catcher has to flash a series of signals, a different one being the real one.

At the end of the day, the actions of We The People can and do overwhelm those syndicates operating behind closed doors to influence markets one way or the other.

We do hold the power because we trade on the basis of principles and we trade, as independents, with no axe to grind.

Any military person will tell you that sheer numbers operating strategically and tactically will overwhelm the opposition. And that's what we are going to do, thanks to the Web.

I am so looking forward to the day we on the buy-side get to put markets back on a level playing field.