Not paranoia.
I asked the little voices and they said it is definitely not paranoia.
Look Dug, how many different type of investors can you name ?
I know you can name instos so that's one.
The opposite of instos would be day traders so that's two.
Then you have the investors who read the financial results and buy for the long term so that's three.
Let's not forget the traders, that would be you and me Dug and most of us in this forum. Not Peter Loh, he's an investor. So we have four.
Well I'll name one that often comes up in some newsletters and forums; those we generally refer to as the "smart money" ! Let's call these five.
Let's see if we can come up with a few more and I throw this open to the forum.

So Dug, do you believe the market moves completely at random or is it a "chaos" movement, so unpredictable that it is predictable. Or do you believe that there are
forces at work that although unable to control the market (The Hunt Brothers and silver) can give it direction?
Or do you believe something else ?
You've often referred to mysterious trades that seem to stop a trend or at the very least slow it down. I think one conclusion was to allow those responsible to continue to accumulate at artificial levels. Why do you find it hard to accept that there are people who do this in most markets in heaven knows how many securities ?
Sometimes these mysterious forces are the instos, sometimes they are not. Sometimes they are referred to as the "smart money" at other times not. But they can influence the market so I believe they can be called market makers.
They have lots of money at their disposal and they can keep the price of shares down while they accumulate until such time that with supply at that level all gone, and mostly gone to their holdings, the price can only go one way and that's up. One way for this is a double bottom with the right leg just a ticks lower than the left. That will shake a lot of holders out and hey, presto, a nice bullish move follows.
Have a look at a gap on any chart. Almost any gap from the bottom of a consolidation zone to just above the top of the zone. Why, with such large overhead supply would the price move above this zone and what happens in such a case ? By gapping above a zone where many people are holding and would be willing to slowly buy or sell, all the possible sellers become holders hoping for higher profits and all new buyers arrive above the zone to buy into this latest bull run. And who do you think is slowly selling their holding now ? A neat way to eliminate resistance. .Those I call the market makers and those who will shortly bring this run to a close and start another move down. Such moves are not a natural occurrence, they are artificially induced by those who seek to control the direction or size of the market moves. The footprints they leave behind is shown in the volume.
What do you not like about this argument Dug ?