Poop and scoop What Is a short ladder attack?
It is a form of market manipulation where an organized group of short-sellers (people who have bet a stock will go down) sell small numbers of shares to each other at successively lower prices to “paint the tape”—meaning to create a series of reported prices trending down that will scare other investors into selling—thus helping their short bet to win.
What Is a Shakeout?
A shakeout is a situation in which many investors exit their positions in a stock or market segment at the same time, often at a loss. A shakeout is usually caused by short sellers spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt. Shakeouts can be quite variable in duration, but they are usually sharp in terms of the amount lost from recent highs.
A shakeout can also refer to stronger companies in an industry using their capital reserves to acquire or eliminate weaker competitors that have overextended themselves.
What is stop hunting?
Stop hunting is a strategy that attempts to force some market participants out of their positions by driving the price of an asset to a level where many individuals have chosen to set stop-loss orders. The triggering of many stop losses at once typically creates high volatility and can present a unique opportunity for investors who seek to trade in this environment.
The volatility creates opportunities for traders to open a long position at a discount or pile onto a short position
What Is P00P&SC00P?
“poop&sc00p” occurs when a group of short sellers attempts to drive down a stock's price by spreading false information, rumors, and otherwise damaging and deceitful information (“1p00p”) in order to then buy the stock at a lower price (“2sc00p”). If they are successful, they can purchase the stock at bargain prices, as the overall marketplace will have sold off the security, causing the price to fall dramatically. “p00p&sc00p" is generally frowned upon by securities exchange regulators and can be prosecuted by the SEC.
What is short and distort?
Short and distort refers to an unethical and illegal practice that involves investors shorting a stock and then spreading rumors in an attempt to drive down its price. Such a practice, most often employed by stock manipulators who trade daily via the internet, involves the spread of unsubstantiated rumors and other kinds of unverified negative news designed to help them realize a profit on their short position.
What Is FUD ?
FUD stands for “fear, uncertainty, and doubt” and refers to a general mindset of pessimism about a particular asset or market, as well as the manipulation of investor or consumer emotions so that they succumb to FUD.
What Is wash trading?
Wash trading is a process whereby a trader buys and sells a security for the express purpose of feeding misleading information to the market. In some situations, wash trades are executed by a trader and a broker who are colluding with each other, and other times wash trades are executed by investors acting as both the buyer and the seller of the security.
Wash trading misleads investors into believing that trading volumes for a security are higher than they actually are.
What Is a Jitney?
The term is used to refer to a type of market manipulation in which brokers trade securities back and forth with one-another in order to earn commissions and artificially produce the appearance of high trading volume.
In this case it defines some brokers that collude with one-another to exploit their clients and other market participants through various schemes.
What Is market capitulation?
Let us define what a market capitulation is to understand how short sellers are trying to force some to sell in panic so that they can cover their short positions.
The posts on this board are mostly from short sellers trying to plant the seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
When prices in a market fall, the first instinct of many investors is to hang on and wait for values to recover. But if a slide goes on long enough, fear of deeper losses can outweigh such hopes. When enough investors reach that breaking point and sell, the result is called market capitulation.
What Is a bear raid?
A bear raid is an illegal practice of colluding to push a stock's price lower through concerted short selling, while spreading negative rumors about the shorted company. A bear raid is sometimes undertaken by unscrupulous short sellers who want to make a quick buck from their short positions, leveraging social media platforms and online message boards.
What Is Painting the Tape?
Painting the tape is a form of market manipulation whereby market players attempt to influence the price of a security at the expense of investors by buying and selling it among themselves to create the appearance of substantial trading activity .
The goal of painting the tape is to create the illusion of an increased selling pressure in a stock to trick investors into selling shares, which would drive the price lower.
What Is marking the open /close?
Marking the open or marking the close is a market manipulation practice that involves making multiple trades minutes before the open or at the closing of the market in order to manipulate the price of the stock. This type of manipulation is also referred to as « stuffing » or « owning » the stock used by short sellers to establish an artificial price that will push investors to panic and sell by stirring their fear emotions.
What Is spoofing?
Spoofing is a form of market manipulation in which a trader places one or more highly-visible orders but has no intention of keeping them (the orders are not considered bona fide). While the trader’s spoof order is still active (or soon after it is canceled), a second order is placed of the opposite type.
For example, a short seller places a large sell order, only to cancel it and place a buy order. The sell order drives the price of the stock down, while the buy order takes advantage of the lower price. The spoof sell order allowed the trader to execute the buy trade at a better price than if the spoof sell order had not been placed.
What Is psychological warfare?
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or psychological operations (PsyOp) involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence a target audience’s belief system, opinions, emotions, motives, reasoning, attitudes, and behaviour. Fear mongering for example is used to induce behaviours favourable to the predator at the expense of the prey.
What Is a short attack?
A short attack is a carefully planned and coordinated attack by a group of short sellers that involves taking a large short position in a company then attempting to drive the share price down by the release of biased negative information. This information can be released in a variety of ways including via a discussion paper, in the media, via “independent” analysts’ reports or on message boards and blogs. Often, these tactics are employed in combination for maximum effect.
What Is a fake deterrence ?
the action of discouraging an action (do not buy this stock if you are thinking about it or sell it now if you have it) through instilling doubt, uncertainties or fear of the consequences that are fake and fabricated by the short sellers and their own imagination (false claims and projections, bankruptcy storytelling and other convenient disinformation designed to mislead and get others to make moves against their interest and that will benefit the instigators of the ruse)
What is fear mongering?
It is the action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue. The party initiatiting the fear campaign seeks to take advantage of those who are naive enough to believe and act on their unchecked emotions at their own expense. Short sellers sell shares short hoping they can pick them up later for almost free so when the time to cover their short positions comes the leeches start spreading rumours of imminent bankruptcy and troubles ahead to convince shareholders to sell the shares that they covet. The shareholders loss is their gain so like any snake oil salesman they want to instill urgency and rush you into panic selling. You need to act now they say. Investing is about more than just a few quarters but time is against them so their unsolicited and free consulting advice for the clothing store is to only sell winter coats at the hottest time of summer.
Remember the story of the fox trying to convince the crow to sing to eat his cheese?
Short story: A crow has cheese a fox wants. The fox asks the crow to sing. It does and drops the cheese.
« Thank you » said Master Fox sweetly, as he walked off. “Though it is broken, you have a voice sure enough. But where are your wits?”
Moral
Short sellers live at the expense of those who will listen to them. If you want to keep your cheese, do no trust strangers giving you free and unsolicited advice.
Long story: One bright morning as the Fox was following his sharp nose through the wood in search of a bite to eat, he saw a Crow on the limb of a tree overhead. This was by no means the first Crow the Fox had ever seen. What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky Crow held a bit of cheese in her beak.
“No need to search any farther,” thought sly Master Fox. “Here is a dainty bite for my breakfast.”
Up he trotted to the foot of the tree in which the Crow was sitting, and looking up admiringly, he cried, “Good-morning, beautiful creature!”
The Crow, her head cocked on one side, watched the Fox suspiciously. But she kept her beak tightly closed on the cheese and did not return his greeting.
“What a charming creature she is!” said the Fox. “How her feathers shine! What a beautiful form and what splendid wings! Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect. Could she sing just one song, I know I should hail her Queen of Birds.”
Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast. She wanted very much to be called Queen of Birds.
So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox’s open mouth.
“Thank you,” said Master Fox sweetly, as he walked off. “Though it is cracked, you have a voice sure enough. But where are your wits?”
Moral
Short sellers live at the expense of those who will listen to their interested fear mongering. If you want to keep your cheese or whatever it is you value do no trust strangers giving you free advice.