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I didn't manipulate the stock. I just sold a large amount when the momentum upward was slow and it triggered a small panic in people who saw the order.
Why do big players use dark pools? So they can sell large amounts of shares without people seeing and not potentially trigger a panic which would lower the price they could distribute at.
However, seeing how that large market order had reshaped the entire pattern for the day... It made me realize that there is nothing trustworthy about small instruments. Everything you are seeing from the volume patterns to the price levels and momentum can be manipulated intraday too easily...
Also, nobody ever think of manipulating anything, besides being illegal... A firm like Knight Capital will detect the activity and hunt your position down.
The first occurrence of the word "manipulated" in this thread was by you on the post I quoted.
So to answer your question:
You started it.
I agree with @DarkPoolTrading -- your strategy is safe, there is no cause for concern in wanting it removed, and to answer your original post
In my opinion, yes, you are too paranoid.
It is obvious that your system is highly discretionary. Showing a chart with a bunch of "squiggly lines" as DarkPool put it, or bands, is not a trade secret. If there is an edge with the method, it is not the chart but your execution of it in a discretionary fashion.
It could also probably be said that it is discretionary how I analyze the Level 2 behavior and patterns at support/resistance levels and use it to help time entries/exits a lot of the time. Hmmm...
Yep... I was definitely having a small paranoia attack! Ha...
" Look how well off I am here ! " he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. " I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my return. I can wallow to my heart's content with only my head above water, or stroll ankle deep through soft mud. No crabs or tadpoles can compare with me. I am master of the water and lord of this shallow well, What more can* a fellow ask ? Why don't you come here more often to have a good time ? "
Before the turtle from the Eastern Ocean could get his left foot into the well, however, he caught his right calw on something. So he halted and stepped back then began to describe the ocean to the frog.
" It's more than a thousand miles across and more than ten thousand feet deep. In ancient times there were floods nine years out of ten yet the water in the ocean never increased.
And later there were droughts seven years out of eight yet the water in the ocean never grew less. It has remained quite constant throughtout the ages. That is why I like to live in the Eastern Ocean. "*
Then the frog in the shallow well was silent and felt a little abashed.
