#1,466 Live market update

As we know, the market has been a blockbuster of a year.

And the interesting part of that is it's been going in phases.

You see some big movements to the upside starting around April and May and a little bit of a slowdown at the end of May.

And then another jump here at about the end of June.

And now we've been staggering a short, slow down step to a little bit lower over the course of the past month or so.

Now, it's interesting because there are a lot of traders and investors that So first off, they want to know what really moves the markets, what actually drives the markets.

When we talk about the market, the overall gauge is typically the S&P 500.

Right now, the S&P 500 is right around that 7,600 area after the stair step down from the highs of around 78.15 back on August 11th.

Now, When people are looking to find out what's moving the market, it's obviously buying and selling between two parties.

And quite frankly, it's an exchange of money from the people that don't know what they're doing to the people that do.

Now, what are the people that don't know what they're doing? And what are the people that do know what they're doing? What are they both doing? How are they reacting? How are they planning? Now, We'll discuss how to make decisions based off of certain things here today, but what actually moves the markets? You have interest rates move the markets, inflation, earnings, you have economic news.

A lot of that stuff does actually move the market.

Now, when you have buyers and sellers constantly reassessing what companies may be worth.

And this could be buyers and sellers like you and I, the public or banks, institutions.

Earnings can be an influence, like I said, interest rates, inflation, economic growth, stuff like that.

And Prices usually react not to what happened, but whether what is going to happen is going to be better or worse than expected.

Now, supply and demand is what's driving that because the institutions, the big banks, they drive the markets.

They have the money.

Now, they have the analysts, they have the people that can do the research on these companies, and they really, I would say they have a pretty good gauge on what's going on.

Now, the average person just doesn't have that skill or the ability or the backing to be able to do that.

So what does the average person need to do? So number one, who moves the markets is the banks and institutions.

So as the public, an individual person, we need to identify where these banks and where these institutions may be buying, which... can be identified at high probability, low risks, all that stuff when you have a plan on a price chart.

And that's supply and demand.

And that's one of the things that Trading Academy has specialized in on their 30th year is identifying a strategy that's That's to follow the banks and institutions.

Putting low risk, high reward, high probability entry points into these markets.