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At StockMarketFunding.com we've featured and highlighted how "High Frequency Trading" has forever changed the stock market. Ever since the Flash Crash the options markets have never been the same and we highlighted that throughout 2010 and 2011. Now we're seeing the dawn of a new and crude enemy that has existed, just in different forms. The "Fake News" story that makes a stock move up or down 3% to 15% in a matter of minutes. Of course in most cases there are no sources and news media insiders are paid or told of a "hot rumor" or "possible development" only to drive a stock price higher or lower. In this breaking story by ZeroHedge we can see the magnitude that "big business" has gone into to manipulte markets both international and domestic. It appears that while we were busy over the past month spreading the Greek pre- and post-bankruptcy balance sheet, and otherwise torturing Excel (something we urge other financial journalists to try once in a while - go ahead, it doesn't bite. In fact, it is almost as friendly as your favorite Powerpoint) our peer at such reputable financial publications as Forbes, and many others, were laying of carbon-based reporters and replacing them with... robots.  As Mediabistro reports, "Forbes has joined a group of 30 publishers using Narrative Science software to write computer-generated stories. Here's more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes' website: ""Narrative Science has developed a technology solution that creates rich narrative content from data. Narratives are seamlessly created from structured data sources and can be fully customized to fit a customer's voice, style and tone. Stories are created in multiple formats, including long form stories, headlines, Tweets and industry reports with graphical visualizations.""  In other words, with well over 70% of stock trading now done by robots, we have gotten to a point where robots write headlines and stories read, reacted to and traded

Google Earnings Miss Shares Drop Over $50 What You Need to Know. In this live "stock market technical analysis" video we'll cover the Google sell off and how to trade it. Options traders got rocked on options expiration 1/20/2012 on the call side and most people were left scratching their head as the bull got killed. We called the top on Google at $670 and if you didn't listen you volunteered to be a victim of Friday's $53.58 sell off. The Bull Case for Google: Google's Miss May Present An Opportunity For Investors. Google Shares still have a weekly MACD buy signal and is maintaining it's longer term weekly moving averages. Google is now currently trading at 11.75 times forward looking earnings. The company's investments in its Android mobile software and fledgling Facebook-like Google+ social network represent some of the company's key growth opportunities going forward. If Google + is gaining members then this is thought to be good for the company going forward. Google Short Term Pain Brings Long Term Opportunity. Google's chief business officer Nikesh Arora said that mobile usage is growing "leaps and bounds", led by smartphones and tablets. Google CEO Larry Page added there are now over 250 million activated Android devices, and said the holiday shopping season helped increase mobile usage, as consumers increasingly searched for products to buy. The Bear Case for Google: Google missed both its revenue and earnings targets after cost-per-click (CPC) - or money that marketers pay Google when Websurfers click on its search ads - decreased for the first time in two years despite record U.S. online commerce during the holiday season. Several brokerages cut their price targets on the stock. Online advertising revenue per click fell in the quarter and this looks like it will continue for the foreseeable future as the online advertising market is currently weak. Insiders have sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares over the