Hey, I'm Ryan Mallory, and this is my swing trading, the stock market podcast.

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Hey, everybody. This is Ryan Mallory with Swing Trading the Stock Market. I got a good episode

for you guys today. We're going to talk about whether or not the stock market is rigged.

I see this so much with traders, especially on social media.

They'll talk about the fact that when a stock doesn't do what it wants it to do, it's rigged or it's manipulated or the banks or the hedge funds or the algos are manipulating the stock and

are preventing you from basically having a winning trade. It's probably more prevalent now to

use that comment than ever before because you have a lot of new traders that are buying into

the notion that the stock market's rigged and that the stock market's rigged against all of the

trades that they take. That's why a lot of them don't even use stop losses. And as you know, that's something that I'm a huge proponent of.

They won't use stop losses because they think the market's rigged that the big banks and that the

big whales on the market that they're going to come after their two or three shares of Tesla stock.

That's probably giving yourself a little bit too much credit when it

comes to trading stocks. I personally don't think that the market really cares about your

stop losses in most cases because as retail traders, we don't have enough influence to really

garner their attention to where there's like, oh man, if we, you know,

trigger their stop losses, we can scoop up their shares on the cheap and let it go right back

up. Okay. Now, if there's like tons and tons of orders, you know, maybe that could happen.

But overall, I want to talk about whether or not the stock market is rigged today and heavily

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