only one comment / point I would like to say.whether markets are...

only one comment / point I would like to say.

whether markets are up or down at the moment, I don't see that low volume, cross trades or bot trades have anything to do with manipulation.

the sp is not being manipulated.

most of the world's money is out of the markets at the moment which means we have a very depressed price for now and low volumes because there is no real news flow at the moment.

that simple

when markets start to show genuine signs of a recovery and who knows when we'll see it plus when news flow starts coming in, we'll start to see higher prices (where we should be now) and higher volumes

if there is to be any manipulation going on, it a collective manipulation that comes not from a few in impactful positions, but from the investor population as a whole. The market as a whole is the only manipulator that I see at the moment and there's sweet nothing we can do about it except either get out (if that's your cup of tea) or stay in and ride the storm