RE: today manipulationThis is disheartening. How can the average retail investor stand a fair chance? I've just started playing the stock market about a year ago and I sometimes feel like I'm being taken for a RIDE! I've watched some stock and their price movement and am convinced that the SPs are being manipulated by institutional players. Since the stock market is a public market, everything should be transparent regardless. Otherwise, it's robbery, plain and simple.