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Strategies & Market Trends : Sharck Soup -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sharck who wrote (35313)	9/13/2001 3:05:56 PM
From: bcrafty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37746

Sharck, "if the big boys take advantage of this tragedy" We will know it immediately when trading resumes. But this depends on your definition of "big boys," which I define as large institutions (brokerage firms, market makers, hedge funds, etc.) Correct me if this is wrong, but I read that 80-90% of daily trading is from institutions, with only the small remainder from retail investors like you, me, and the others on this board. Therefore, nearly all major market moves on any given day is the result of big boys' trading. I suppose that even gaps would be because of big boys, if you consider specialists to be included in the definition. Does this make sense or am I carrying "big boys" too far?