RE:will keep watching it"...manipulation of oil prices by market makers and derivative traders..."
Manipulation by market makers is a given, that's what they do for a living and a lucrative one at that; but derivatives traders??? I don't see how buying or selling say 15 or 20 calls or puts on any security is more manipulative than buying or selling 1,500 or 2,000 shares of that same issue which may have to be held for years before an opportunity to unload them at a profit comes along, as CPG has shown us in spades; it'll be a looong time before some people on this board with a breakeven above $10+ will recoup their investment and in the meantime a big chunk of their trading money is well and truly dead money; whereas with options, the money tied up is a mere fraction and the results, positive or negative, will be known within a few months, usually two or three. Why is this more manipulative than trading shares? Please explain