price manipulation
Artificially controlling costs
Price manipulation is artificially inflating or deflating the price of a security, commodity, or other asset through deceptive practices.
Methods include spreading false information, coordinated buying or selling, wash trading, or cornering a market.
The term implies illegality or at minimum ethical violation: The SEC investigated the firm for price manipulation.
Distinguished from legitimate market activity by intent to deceive rather than genuine supply and demand.
- rigged gameContest with predetermined outcome
- pump and dumpFraudulent stock inflation scheme
- insider tradingIllegal securities transactions using nonpublic information
- spoofingFraudulent imitation
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
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- price crimesovercharging, profiteering
- commodities tradingcommodities, commodity markets, futures, futures contracts, futures trading
- exploitationexploit, predatory, sex trafficking, take advantage, human trafficking
- monopolymonopoly, monopolization, market power, market dominance, market concentration
- crypto crimesrug pull, exit scam, pump and dump, Ponzi scheme, cryptojacking
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