Only when you trade against the trend they look rigged. When you win you think you are smart and the markets are just doing what they are supposed to
why not to look into bigger picture if markets were not rigged Goldman and JPM would be bankrupts and their place would be taken by someone else and it could be you or me instead you're happy with your buy and hold unrealized gain
Market is up more than 100% in less than 2 years, every correction is met by the government intervention as president administration full of wall streets representatives they know ahead of the market when this intervention occur ordinary market participants left guessing now clear?
Because the bigger picture doesn't pay you shit. Buying high and selling higher does pay. It's called trading. Most guys on ET think like to think they are economists or analysts. If you want to be one, go get a job as one, don't trade. They are completely different professions.
As Dennis Gartman likes to say, when price moves from the lower left to the upper right, you buy! I can't make it any more simple then that for you.