Stockwatch: Investors, Beware Of The False Positive
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
On the cusp of third-quarter earnings season and after nine weeks of an often savage stock market sell-off, the market bounced last week. With algorithmic trading and dark pools influencing the volume and prices of shares traded in the more opaque portions of the stock market, a three-day market bounce might be as believable as the official figures on the growth of the Chinese economy.