Institutions are prepared to trade and hedge very rapidly and so can play hot potato until the last second, even when shadows loom in the near future, and these

Institutions are prepared to trade and hedge very rapidly and so can play hot potato until the last second, even when shadows loom in the near future, and these institutions dominate market trends. Stock market behavior is no longer an effective way to forecast the future of an economy or industry, and retail trading is basically just a set up to be the last one holding that hot potato when things turn.