The modern financial media, brokers, and others constantly bombard traders and investors with the message that markets are externally driven.What are the chances we've been lied to all along?Are markets capable of impelling themselves?Do they really need external stimuli?And if price movement were random and driven by external events, would we see the trending and other behaviors, including price patterns (like triangles and wedges), that we see in real markets?In his brief but potent treatise, Non-Toxic Trading: Acquiring the Essential View of Markets, first time author Erek Daniels considers whether the financial media, along with others, are guilty of creating a toxic environment where traders and investors are lead away from the essential and correct view of markets. Markets that have their own internal lives...Consider the evidence for emergent, internally-driven markets.You may never look at a price chart the same way again