Tue 29 Jul 2008
Over at Gaming the Market, they've posted a list of some ways broker/dealers, market makers and others can illegally manipulate their clients or the market. We aren't recommending any of these tactics, they are all illegal. You must, however, know what you are up against. Here's the list:
- Accommodation Trading
- Bucketing
- Channel Stuffing
- Churning
- Circular Trading
- Cross Trade
- Double Dipping
- Exercise Backdating
- Freeriding
- Front Running
- Ghosting
- Ginzy Trading
- Gun Jumping
- Hockey Stick Bidding
- Interpositioning
- Jitney
- Kiting
- Late-Day Trading
- Matching Orders
- Options Backdating
- Painting the Tape
- Pairing Off
- Parking
- Poop and Scoop
- Portfolio Pumping
- Pre-arranged Trading
- Pump and Dump
- Short and Distort
- Tailgating
- Trading Ahead
- Wash Trading
Collusion between two parties is always the hardest manipulation to catch. That's why the retail investors are quite often the 'Pigs' that get slaughtered.


September 19th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Nice job on the list with links!