RE:Manipulation ?? . I let you decide Iroc has done a tremendous job of stopping an uptick but why is this downticking any different ?? I have placed many an order over the years that has influenced the price higher on open and close to complete an order and I admit years ago to I may have even did it to influence the TA. That got stopped, as Iroc tightened up on all of this behaviour. Problem is, an inacent buy at the end of the day to the upside now gets labeled as an illegal uptick, yet a downtick is absolutely no problem. Funny how the rules do not apply in both dircections. Anytime I got a call for such actions and I tried explaining myself it fell on deaf ears. Makes you wonder. So now I am suppose to watch the clock so closely and do not bid up at the open or close high end of day.. Totally ridiculous when it doesn't apply to both camps.. The rules are written for institutions and favor shorts. How many times has a million shares gone right past your trade as houses trade between specified routes to go past mainstream buy and sells. It is a very sad system favouring banks, brokers and institutions. Nearly every time I place a buy or sell a computer jumps in front of my buys and sells with priority over my trade??? Like wow, how crooked has the system become?? VERY.. Has naked shorting gone away? Likely not a bit and until these guys get called out for this behaviour it won't change.. The only bright side to this is I may get another fill, and fill I will, because this is going north.