You really don't understand, ricky.The Market Maker System has S E C - enforced rules. There are criteria needed to even apply to be a Market Maker. A broker cannot just say .. ' We make a market for NAG '. He must apply to do this. You simply do not understand the subject. To manipulate a stock as you write about requires big big working capital and lots of shares. It is far beyond Joe Sixpack with a bunch of his friends. And YES it is illegal to do this in Canada. It is akin to 'cornering the market'. Sure there are crims everywhere but since Bre X in Canada there is a new effort to try to keep the markets true to the freedom of supply and demand. And to police the Promoters behind these deals. Hence the new 43-101 designation for what can be written technically. It's not perfect here yet and probably never will be .. but it's light years cleaner now than it was pre Bre X.