Market surveillance is a joke! So about 4 years ago i had a long standing buy order in on a junior mining stock for 10,000 shares that was partially filled at the close one day of only 1000 shares.......right at 15:59:59 on the clock.
The very next day I was contacted by market surveillance because this stock had been in the green all day and my 1000 partial fill at close dropped it back to even.
Anyway I was accused of trying to "paint the tape".......I thought it was a joke but the guy was dead serious and said I should be aware that they watch this kind of manipulation and not to do it again!
So if anyone is paying attention that exact thing has occured with BRAU 4 of the last 5 trading days.
Why?