Conspiracy

Marcus is a narcissist sociopath, but don't ever call him plain ol' Mark, that's not remotely grandiose enough for his swollen ego. No, ‘Marcus’ spends all day perfecting his look, planning his social manipulation (kissing the bosses ass, denigrating those below him to oppress their will to compete with him, etc.), furious at anyone/anything in the way of his agenda, stepping on babies faces as he climbs corporate ladders, projecting as rich or poor depending on his current audience, hugging every penny like a diamond, can't even distinguish fact from fiction since speaking solely serves as an ethics-free means to an end; a real piece of shit that wouldn’t hesitate to destroy you for calling out his bad behavior.

There's a meaningful percentage of empathyless humans that are randomly born this way. They manifest as Karens, Kevins, zealots, fascists, nationalists, despots, etc. Of these, a few are actually quite intelligent, and it's THIS combination of a narcissist sociopath with intelligence, and many of them coming together to collaborate on how best to fulfill their privileged destiny to take everything from everyone, that creates the paradigm called the ‘hedge fund’, which at its core is nothing more than a market manipulation enterprise, only accessible to wealthy clients, or in some cases funded by parent banks. A ruthless cabal of Marcus', all conspiring to game the economy in a manner that presents the greatest wealth extraction opportunities for themselves, and they don't give a fuck who gets hurt in the process; dimissing culpability with “hate the game, not the player” bullshit. No, they want you to believe that bringing the world to its knees is the fault of the system that enabled them.

MONEY

The ‘game’ they refer to of course, is none other than the global pyramid scheme of unbounded capitalism. I’m not just referring to the United States, I’m referring to the concept of fiat-based finance that every single country in the world employs. You see, fiat is an unnatural abomination, and because it’s possible to own unlimited fiat with no additional effort, it creates an incredible loophole that nature never intended. Can you imagine a Tyrannosaurus Rex eating a whole herd of Triceratops? No, obviously such gluttony is bound by the laws of physics. You’re not going to be able to say like a fucking retard that if he ate the whole herd then he earned it, that’s just senseless, resulting in famine and death for all; certainly not how nature works. Darwin is rolling in his grave.

Money isn’t bound by the laws of physics. Money can forever be collected, and it’s this unique property that not only makes it unnatural and foreign to our primitive brains, but it’s also too easy to overlook this fact and make hasty comparisons to historical assets like gold, creating a dangerous false equivalency that blinds us to the perils of fiat. People don’t understand fiat’s infinite accumulation loophole, so they’re not able to understand that they are losing ‘relative’ purchasing power even if they think they’re not playing. In other words, we are all connected and if you’re not winning, you’re losing, whether it be by inflation, or losing your job when the economy crashes due to hedge fund market gaming.

HEDGING

Hopefully if you’ve spent some time in the markets already, you’ve edumacated yourself on the toolset at your disposal. Shorting, futures, leverage, stop losses, etc. Hedge funds take these tools and more, to a whoooooole nutha level. Exotic derivatives, tranches, credit default swaps, iron condors, etc. and it’s with these tools that they can not only protect their capital base in complex ways, but also extract eye-popping amounts of money from the markets, which ultimately comes from you at the bottom of the pyramid, and I don’t just mean if you’re trading, I mean directly out of your pockets by a million unseen forces.

There is one underlying aspect to it all to make it work however, and that’s the need for volatility (price fluctuations). Think of volatility like ‘shaking’ the market so coins fall out that can be picked up. A flat boring market doesn’t move money around, and these sociopaths make most of their money when markets are volatile. Seems like a simple point to make, but keep this in mind as I build on it.

DENIAL OF REALITY

MOST people do not understand how markets work, refusing to believe there’s someone pressing the buttons behind the scenes, allowing their typical human cognitive biases to form their worldview, and becoming vicious smarmy assholes when that worldview is challenged. This reaction stems from the profound cognitive dissonance they feel when confronted with the idea that not only are they wrong, but that the world is a much more evil place than they're prepared to acknowledge. Rather they’re willing to deny reality just to stay in that nostalgic propaganda-distilled bubble of imagined comfort for as long as possible. This obstinance is the foundation of how hedge funds milk retail because nothing is more predictable and easily manipulated than a know-it-all fucking retard drawing lines on a chart.

Many clueless twats scoff at the idea that markets are manipulated at this scale, they’d rather firmly drink the kool-aid and believe free markets are fair markets, and that all movements are organic and fair game, if for no other reason than to avoid questioning their oh-so-venerable beloved capitalism. These types are called embarrassed millionaires, essentially poor people that believe their ship is coming in eventually so they support exploitative systems that they think they’ll eventually benefit from once they’re rich.

Embarrassed millionaires are mouth-foaming capitalism maxis that refuse to see the bad side of unbounded wealth. They throw simple-minded arguments of ‘natural selection’ and ‘fair open markets’ and ‘driving innovation’ at you like they’re indisputable virtues, but they never want to talk about the system gaming or the cronyism or the insider trading or the lobbying or the political corruption or the incumbent moats or the market manipulation or the predatory advertising/news or the psyops propaganda or the oligopolies or the widening class separation or the housing crisis or the surreal national debt or the monstrous inflation…

When you really take a hard look, it seems capitalism mostly helps the already rich, and yet these fucking embarrassed idiots think of capitalism like it’s a religion, something to dedicate yourself to, defend with your life, confuse for nationalism, measure your success by, define ethics/morality by, excusing incomprehensibly inexcusable immoral behavoir by, simply because it’s ‘profitable’, as if somehow profit forms the very core of morality.

CRUSHING REALITY

For the rest of us, we all know the truth in our hearts, the world is ruled by a cabal of despicable soulless greedy Marcus’, ermm...somewhere..., but all we do is point fingers at everything but the true culprits. You hear many people blame the contemporary villains: Bilderbergs, Rockefellers, etc., wildly outdated populist nonsense, but it reflects the natural human tendency to oversimplify and try to pin the blame on a specific powerful individual for this subsurface feeling of doom that continues to dwell in this zeitgeist's belly. Nothing feels authentic, reality isn't real. It's an obvious facade in front of everything, we all know it, but it's shapeless, transparent, amounting to just subtle nudges that individually largely go unnoticed, but in aggregate (inflation, unemployment, housing, etc.), we can feel these hidden-hand effects, and each new generation's adaptations are stark in contrast to the prior gen's. Gen Z actually just gave up. They see the futility for what it is.

I could go on literally forever with all the things wrong with capitalism, and then I could spend another forever going on about all the things wrong with socialism, so put your fucking head back on, I’m not a socialist either. I’ve already made my case for society here. Today I am writing about the monsters at the heart of our economies, the hedge funds, and how their antics dramatically affect everyone’s quality of life, and have been doing so for so long that we don’t even know what another reality could be like. Most of us don’t even realize we’re forced to be pawns in their global game of chess.

WHEN DID IT START?

For 400 years, the concept of trading ownership in companies has been alive and well. It was designed around implicit limits where humans had to conduct the trades manually, and the currency was literal precious metals. Stock issuance was with the best of intentions of being a vehicle for companies to raise capital for business development, and a simple way for anybody to own part of a company. Almost immediately, it also became a vehicle for market manipulation, yes, 400 years ago, there were also sociopaths manipulating the markets. It was immediately apparent that free markets cannot self-regulate, because sociopaths don’t play fair. Anybody trying to tell you that markets should be left alone to do their thing unregulated, is one of these sociopaths. This was quickly suppressed by governments with the introduction of regulations to try to purify the markets to just speculation, without allowing for tampering, and this was easily enforced back then because it operated at human speed and players were visible.

The markets quickly became the centerpiece hub of economies, where every value movement eventually trickled up the pyramid to circulate in the markets. Everything that happens in the economy is driven by how the markets are performing. If the markets are bad, then Suzie the clerk gets fired from the local grocery store despite 20 years of great service. We’re all playing this game through countless corporate layers until it finally reaches the markets at the top, and it’s this top that is the playground for the Marcus’, and we are all subject to their shenanigans.

One thing is certain, non-sociopaths unanimously agree that a stock’s price should somewhat reflect the potential value of that company now and into the future. That’s the whole fucking point of this paradigm, and this is why is it so hard for most of us to make sense of the price action of markets, defying even the best of news, and randomly pumping for no apparent reason. When sociopaths step in and start playing with the numbers and have no interest in the underlying company, then that’s no different than loosing a shark in an aquarium; there’s absolutely nothing natural about mixing habitats, and only serves to destroy its purpose.

As the markets evolved, the sociopaths became ever more sophisticated in their approach to manipulation, greying the areas in which they influence so their actions are difficult to discern from legitimate trading, and therein lies the cancer, the ability to operate in disguise and expand their parasitical infiltration, but there are always signs, most notably the…

PUMP AND DUMP

The classic all-time favorite trick of manipulators is to gently walk the price up with ever so small purchases. The way order books are set up with market makers populating the bids/asks immediately around the price, it would take a lot of money to substantially move the price in one purchase because of large bids or asks in the way, BUT, if you just buy one share, then the last price updates to that price, and invariably the market makers will readjust their bids/asks to center on the new price. Then again, a manipulator can move the price with another small purchase, and wait for the order book to rebalance. This slow process can dramatically move the price over time, at very little cost, even though there was no ‘genuine’ demand.

The setup for the pump and dump would be the manipulator over time buys a stock at say $10, and once they’ve accumulated enough, they start nudging the price up to say $15 and then starts accelerating the nudging, which draws a lot of retail and corporate attention, convincing capitalists that this company’s stock is starting to price in the true value of the company, so they rush in, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of price appreciation. The manipulators sell into this mad rush till there’s no more suckers left to buy, and the stock crashes back to where it started. Not a single aspect of this move was based on the fundamentals of the company, it was 100% manipulation, and this goes on...CONSTANTLY.

In fact, I’d say the vast majority of market activity is some form of manipulation to foster sentiment based on rising or lowering price, or liquidity hunts (explained below). The remaining 10% is all that’s left of the original ‘fundamentals’ intent of the market to help companies sell part ownership as a means to raise capital.

But we’re all to blame for enabling this outcome. Be honest, do any of you truly understand the technology behind Bitcoin? Or Ethereum? Do you know what Nvidia’s GPU’s mean for the company’s future?? Of course not, you’re all full of shit, you’re not buying on fundamentals, you’re chasing green candles and empowering narratives. You could give a fuck less that Bitcoin is now horrifically centralized into few hands as long as price go up. I’m trying to point out that those green candles are typically nothing more than a few hedge funds inducing FUD or fomo-funded price swings so they can dump on you.

EVOLUTION

The past few decades has seen the stock market evolve from a tightly regulated very closed permissioned ecosystem, into what is now essentially widespread instant day-trading for millions of people. With this level of access, the ideal of eliminating manipulation becomes an impossible endeavor simply because of the level of noise and anonymity available. It’s gotten so bad that manipulators don’t even try to hide their antics any more, operating with impunity. The markets are so detached from the ethos it was defined for that it's become a veritable casino, with all the randomness and ‘house always wins’ we should expect from one, making it impossible to find any genuine signals; like bats in an anechoic chamber. Violent market movements with no foundation in reality (Oct 10), coordinated attacks on stocks (GameStop). The days of speculating on a company or token based on fundamentals seems to be a distant memory.

One could say that it’s always been like that, but I want to highlight how this manipulation is evolving rapidly, particularly with the advent of AI, but first, let’s talk about the pieces of this hedge fund parasite.

1. As mentioned, hedge funds need volatility to be profitable
2. Hedge funds can ‘induce’ volatility by walking the price up or down with very little cost, to trigger Fud/Fomo/liquidity cascades
3. People tend to be super predictable and thus the same Fud/Fomo tricks will ALWAYS work, even a million times in a row
4. And the most important but subtle aspect being, zero fees market making

Wait, what’s this zero fees market making thing?

Market makers (usually hedge funds) are entities that provide perpetual bids and asks near the current price in the order books. This allows ‘takers’ (buyers and sellers like you and me) to always have the ability to move modest money in or out of an asset. Market makers make money on the ‘spread’, which is the difference between what they’re willing to buy and sell at. Over time and volume, they continuously make profit from this price difference. Seems innocent enough, but this is a key weapon in the hedge funds arsenal.

Because hedge funds provide this service, the exchanges largely exempt them from ‘trading fees’. You all know when you buy a token that you’re immediately in the red because of the fees, on both buying and selling. Sometimes you need the price to move nearly a full 1% just to break even. First of all, it’s this distinction between ‘makers’ and ‘takers’ that makes it difficult for us retail to compete with them, but it’s ALSO the vehicle for making walking the price around profitable, because being positioned as a market maker not only provides liquidity to that asset, but it also sneakily gives the hedge fund access to control the price with fee-less price walking, all while HIDING behind their role as “Hey bro, just making the market over here. Look away…” If everyone had fee-less trading, then these hedge fund low-cost fake pumps could be just as easily counteracted. Pump and Dumps would have a much harder time getting started because we could all be market makers.

LIQUIDITY HUNTS

And the final piece of the puzzle: liquidity hunting. Most abrupt price movements are from price manipulation to clear leveraged liquidity. To quote a genius, a liquidity sweep is where a hedge fund walks up (or down) the price via a series of small trades (so the bid/ask book moves with them instead of absorbing them), until price enters a range where leveraged liquidations occur, creating massive volume they can sell (or buy) into. Don’t confuse this with order book liquidity, which has the opposite effect of acting as resistance, no, leveraged liquidation zones act as a magnet for manipulators so they can exchange massive volumes of assets without dramatic slippage.

That’s it! That’s all that’s going on with the price. Practically nothing organic about it at all.. Hedge funds use their MM tradebots to manipulate the price to induce fud/fomo and to dump into leveraged liquidations. There is almost NOTHING else going on, meaning all price action you see, is from these hedge funds performing these acts. Fundamentals? Pffft… you being played, bitch.

RED PILL

Ready for the rabbit hole now?

I mean the deeper one?

It’s not sufficient to drive Fud/Fomo from price manipulation alone, that only works on people actively watching the price of their assets, which is actually very few. BUT, most people are tuned into the news, and so for a very long time, newspapers and other news outlets served as the primary propaganda vehicle to induce fud/fomo, whether it be by company announcements, or scandals, or slander, or fear mongering, a lot of what you read was specifically authored to induce sentiment that statistically translates into market influence. Boiler rooms were famous for cold-calling inducement, selling shit and dumping on vulnerable people with far too much faith in the system to protect them from these con artists hiding behind DYOR! Pure evil.

Especially today so much of what you read or hear is in some abstract way meant to impact market conditions, good or bad, it doesn’t matter, because remember, hedge funds make money from volatility, not just price go up, which is a very foreign concept for most people, and this confusion obscures the actual mechanism by which hedge funds take our money. For most, they can’t understand how profit comes out of a range bound price, and then the price eventually crashes, and most are left scratching their heads wondering how it’s possible Saylor bought so much Bitcoin, and Bitcoin is now held by so many treasuries, and the President endorses Bitcoin, and yet the price still doesn’t go up. “OG sellers!!” you’ll hear people cry, but the truth is, every single small price up, the hedge funds profit, and every small price down, the hedge funds ALSO profit, and that means they are constantly extracting. So yes, all that money came in, and these hedge funds snuck it out right in front of your eyes by exploiting the volatility.

The hedge funds are masters at concealing their actions, not even just by being subtle in the markets, but by contributing to the narratives that distract. They combine AI bots on social media and published press releases to flood our awareness with countless compelling narratives and fabricated conspiracies to explain away price action. Oh tariffs caused the crash, oh Saylor bought some more, Oh CZ caused the crash, Oh 5th Elliot Wave kicked in, Oh Canada’s selling fentanyl, Oh hash rate is record high… on and on and on, and meanwhile NONE of that shit is what’s affecting the markets, it’s all just narrative to give false meaning and justification to the manipulative action of the fucking hedge funds inducing volatility so they can extract money; that’s ALL that’s going on here! ALL of this drama, saber-rattling, mass-depression, infighting, middle-fingering drama is a global smokescreen and confusionatorium to obscure the simple fact that hedge funds are emptying your pockets while you're looking the other way. Don’t believe anything you are told, or read. The Twitter timelines are literally full of sentiment-inducing AI bots trying to get you to react and make trades, creating the opportunity for hedge funds to dump on you; the only true global conspiracy there is.

People are incredibly gullible. There’s actually still countless fucking morons out there blaming @cz_binance for ongoing market crashes! He’s been out of Binance forever! He was even framed by the wall street cabal and went to jail for money laundering, which was complete bullshit and just a slander campaign to allow them to take over Binance, what part of that isn’t bleedingly obvious?? I can’t get into that again or I’ll eventually just crack and start axe-murdering people at random; dumb motherfuckers.

Can’t you see?? You are fed so much misinformation to ‘distract’ you from seeing what’s going on and pointing the finger where it needs to point, and that’s the hedge funds and every last one of those sociopathic parasites that extract our value by gaming the system. They have very deep pockets and incredible technology resources, to the point that everything they do is fully automated. And because of this automation via trading bots, not only can they manipulate the prices of any and all assets/crypto, but now all assets are becoming somewhat correlated as a consequence. When Bitcoin crashes, the entire fucking market crashes! What the fuck does Bitcoin have to do with Fartcoin?? When you see this correlation in real time, don’t be that fucking idiot saying, “well, looks like quantum is affecting bitcoin and someone’s rotating out of fartcoin, hyuk hyuk”. No, it’s all the tradebots moving in tandem to ‘unify’ the entire market’s liquidity, allowing hedge funds to extract unimaginable value from all the assets combined; squeezing the entire market like a sponge. There can’t be any clearer evidence that the markets are completely disconnected from fundamentals than by witnessing this correlation. No, the plague of hedge fund tradebots has overrun the market like a billion Mr. Smiths.

AI BOTTIFICATION

I'm not trying to say manipulation hasn't always been part of trading, of course it is, but it’s also getting worse.. Much worse. At an exponentiating rate. The hedge fund tradebots are now so AI integrated that they're acting in real-time to assess their best moves, far beyond what even their creators can anticipate, and each individual hedge funds’ bot army can sense other hedge funds’ bot armies via market action, and this creates an unwitting progressive alignment of ALL the bots, from ALL hedge funds. They passively coordinate through human-imperceptible Schelling points that invariably brings them into sync in a self-optimizing manner that would be impossible for humans to coordinate, allowing for previously unheard of gigantic organized collaborating capital flows that turn the market into a screaming rollercoaster of volatility, in what amounts to a global tradebot orgasm. Just look at gold and silver this week! Holy fucking shit!! Trillion dollar assets bouncing around like a meme coin. I truly expect wild unprecedented volatility to continue to get worse as more and more AI automation is incorporated into these well-funded trade bots, and the divide between the rich and poor accelerates into madness.

10/10 was another example. Binance gets demonized for their very clearly disclosed auto-deleveraging (ADL) policies that auto close leveraged positions in extreme scenarios. It’s done like this to protect the platform from uncovered losses, so if you were affected by this, you failed to do your due diligence. Don’t be that moron hating on Binance because you were wiped out; this is a paradigm of risk-taking, take some responsibility, understand your gambles. Binance had nothing to do with triggering 10/10, but with all the leverage in the entire market, it was a tinderbox looking to explode, and Binance is the biggest player so it was impacted the most, and that’s exactly what happened on that fateful low volume Friday. Yet so many fucking goddam morons are out there blaming Binance, when again, it’s just the hedge funds popping these leverage bubbles, and they couldn’t be happier that exchanges are taking the blame for their antics.

These market movements are beyond historical precedent, and even comprehension; the action far far exceeding what anything retail or even corporate demand can justify. No, it's a unified swarm of hedge funds brimming with billions of liquid dollars, jumping in and out of the markets in an AI-driven symphony, causing extreme havoc. This is NOT what the markets are designed for, nor equipped to mitigate, it's become a complete shit-fest firmly disconnected from its fundamentals ethos and now only serves as a retail fuckery factory.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Technically speaking, there’s one glaring kill shot, the zero fees market making. It seems so inconsequential in the big picture, but as we all know from trading experience, fees add up, and can make the difference between a good or bad trader. If we could all trade for free, that would take a big part of the hedge funds’ advantage away, allowing anyone to nullify price walking. Unfortunately, these trading fees are the bread and butter for exchanges, so it’s unlikely they’ll ever level the playing field.

The only thing left is for us to stop being so gullible. Question every single thing you read/hear and reflect on how it influences you, because that influence is its entire intent. It's hard to do because humans have a predisposition to respect the appearance of authoritative presentation of information, not realizing that a 10-year-old can now professionally produce a compelling news article. People are so lost, fighting about religion, fighting about left or right (smol brane bullshit), fighting long-standing allies because some Machiavellian orangutan flipped a switch, I mean, holy fuck people, wake the fuck up! You need to be pissed off at the legion of Marcus' on Wall Street creating all this chaos for the sole purpose of creating uncertainty and hence market volatility! Turning us against each other while they sip on champagne and laugh at us brainwashed morons.

These fucking sociopathic savages have overrun a principally sound capitalist institution and hijacked it into their real-time tradingbot global cash machine, while successfully distracting everyone from seeing it! We are all being fucked by their exploitation of antiquated flows and processes that were never meant for AI-bottification, to create a feeding pool for themselves at our expense, and we seem helpless to defy their charms and token gifts that the market gives us then later takes away.

PERSPECTIVE

When you think of how money is nothing more than a container for human labor, it's easy to understand that money itself is the chains of slavery, and we are all working so goddam hard every day, just to survive at the minimum, most of us check to check, while these fucking bastards are gaming and exploiting the systems with their tech and advantages to milk us dry through all the layers of the economy so we don't even know who it is taking from us. But make no mistake, the top of this pyramid is nothing but a bunch of hedge funds filled to the brim with Marcus sociopaths. We are all connected together because of money, and the cabal won't allow us to leave the game. The sooner you realize that these gangsters gaming the markets have a DIRECT IMPACT on your quality of life, the sooner you'll start putting the blame on the right people, instead of being distracted by the scapegoats they throw at you.

They'll even allow us to believe we have escape routes, like Bitcoin, but fight it the whole way with regulation and high-profile litigation scare tactics to slow its progression, until they finally figure out how to control it and then just take that over as well, happy to also extract your value from that instrument of liberation.

It's all a sick game to them as they drive their lexus' and yachts that they did zero genuine useful work for, with zero contribution to society, patting themselves on the back the entire time, but in reality all they did was learn how to rob us from a distance; that’s not a skill, that’s a crime. They think they're fucking geniuses, projecting their exploitative skills as providence, believing that nobody else is smart enough to understand their infinite money glitch, but the only real difference between these assholes and us, is integrity.

Every last one of us could be thieving conmen living off the backs of others, but true genius is to not be, no matter the opportunity cost.

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