@randomtask you're market manipulator What is market manipulation?
• Intentional or willful conduct designed to deceive or defraud investors by controlling or artificially affecting the price of securities, or
• Intentional interference with the free forces of supply and demand
• Can be designed to drive a stock’s price up or down.Why is it a problem?
• Harmful because it affects the integrity of the market place
• Price should be set by the unimpeded collective judgment
of buyers and sellers
• Undermines fair, honest and orderly markets
• Investors will stay out of your market if they perceive that it is not fair and is subject to manipulationCommencement of a Manipulation
• Market manipulations typically involve thinly traded shares of little known or start up companies
• With small volume of trading, it is easier to effect the price of the stock
• Also, easier to make fraudulent or outlandish claims about the financial condition or business prospects of a little-known company
• sometimes a fraudster will circulate a false rumor about company hoping to benefit when the stock price runs down