It's hard not to notice that prices reverse at specific levels, namely those levels that correspond to previous major support and resistance. While institutions aren't out to intentionally run you over, they will try to gun for those stops that are placed near those levels because they also know those stops will propel the price further. This is what usually happens when the shorts get squeezed, for example, and the market rockets higher. You can't say the "institutions" aren't aware of this type of phenomenon and that they won't take the liberty of using their power to move the market to their advantage.
Those who hate riggers have already given up on investing / trading. Those who like riggers continue to invest / trade.
For every Futures market look at the Options market equivalent. For one simple reason: https://www.sec.gov/news/studies/ordpay.htm Payment for order flow leaves an unfavorable position for retail traders in the Options market and, as a consequence, the Futures market. So, is it rigged? I would say so, because the facts are there.
Nonsense. It sound stupid to say ES is rigged. ES is the most popular but that doesn't mean we can' t trade other instruments. There people trading gold, oil, natural gas and crypto.
Of course it is rigged ... in your head. Therefore you have a built-in excuse when you lewzzzzzzzzz. That's the point isn't it, for believing that.
No thanks, I live in reality. Always have. It's why some take offense to my responses. But that's ok. I don't take offense to their ignorance.