RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Velocity Total Shares TradedWith Velocity and Anon, is it possible that one of these apply? Not suggesting anything at all, this is just a possibility? It doesn't make sense to me that anyone has that many shares and are still selling. And with that many, you'd figure it might be an insider and need to be reported? Just doesn't make any sense to me, especially at this stage. And there are still no signs of insiders selling anything at all.
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 are higher than they actually are.
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 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 painting the tape?
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.