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Markets change, trading strategies change, trading vehicles change but one thing does not change and that is big money or real money accounts with the resources and patience to move markets remains the same. If Amazon decides to put its HDQ is Pocatello, Idaho or Barstow, California all things change in those locations. Markets are driven by behemoth capital players. It is as true in technology, stocks, commodities or interest rates as it is to real estate. Knowing what out sized accounts are doing has become increasingly difficult with electronic access to the markets now driven by algo quant equations executing trades electronically for MONSTER ACCOUNTS. Company spokesmen certainly are not going on MSNBC to divulge their positions unless already well placed into them or completely out. Secrecy to avoid slippage is a critical part of performance.Ultimately, identifying monster account activity has moved from a tip from a primary dealer trader or CBOT pit trader to quantitatively evaluating data of electronically executed trades. My career started out as a Certified Public accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. and as I became increasingly dis-satisfied with evaluating the past and more hungry to create the future a career change brought me to evaluating creating and selling tax shelters in the hey day of tax shelters when oil and gas, wind turbines were the hot commodities. When tax laws changed I needed to re-create myself into a venture capitalist for wealthy investors in real estate, technology and ethanol plants. Although these efforts allowed for some level of success, my interests always lay in markets as I helped start a small broker dealer long since absorbed into bigger and bigger entities. A lot has changed since my first initiation into the world of bond trading, but one factor remains the same and that is monster accounts move markets. Using mathematical tools to identify random vs non-random order flow reveals what these behemoth real money accounts are doing whether they like it or not. As a consultant, trader and manager, avoiding pain or getting rolled by a market that is moving in spite of what seems rational is the reward for keeping an eye on real money positioning via algo quant platforms.Favorite quote: Hate is a fool's only comfort.