Market manipulations - an example

[Hogmaster]

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced

to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around,

went out to the forest, and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to

diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.

He further announced that he would now buy at $20.

This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started

catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started

going back to their farms.

The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys

became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey,

let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50!

However, since he had to go to the city on some business,

his assistant would now buy on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers.

'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has
collected.

I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the
city,

you can sell them to him for $50 each.'

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the
monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant ever again,

only monkeys everywhere!

Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market
works.

[matttheduck]

While it's a funny story, it's nothing like the stock market.

[iwanttofish]

That was good thanks.

[FrogPond]

Monkey Futures are looking up!

[Norski]

Sending tankers off the coast loaded with oil past the 3 miles International waters, and when inventory time comes, and over with they come back in, where did all this oil come from, prices up, now down, we have more oil,????????????
Inron got us, now our own goverment has us.

[Lurp]

It's all about the money from your pocket to theirs