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Crypto Market Manipulation is Overhyped...
Good day; everyone seems (and has seemed for a long time) fairly obsessed with all of the manipulation, crazy wash trading, spoofing, etc in crypto. It's way less prevalent than people think. Goes without saying that you have your everyday pedestrian scammers organizing pump and dumps and using a...
JP Morgan Manipulating Energy Prices...a question
I've read a few very good posts on WSO about commodities trading , so I'm led to believe the knowledge is out there... My question to the WSO community is: does anyone have a good understanding of how JPMVEC actually perpetuated the fraud (how did the scheme work in practice), and who might some of...
Why Is This Illegal?
I was going to post something about this yesterday. The CFTC has charged a handful of small players with market manipulation in response to the 2008 oil spike to $147 a barrel. And I'm really at a loss for what these guys did that was illegal. Sure, they tried to corner the market for WTI crude at a...
Flash Crash 2.0?
The May 6 flash crash was a crazy event , the Dow plunged 998 points and stocks like Accenture dropped from $40 to a single cent in the span of minutes. Debate on what may have caused it has been never-ending, from the fat finger theory to shitty trade execution getting the blame for it, but one guy...
Fraud on Wall Street?
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone , the magazine’s financial reporter, Matt Taibbi, writes a story called “Wall Street’s Naked Swindle,” in which he claims that evidence suggests that there was massive manipulation (specifically a whole lot of naked short selling) that helped fuel the...
CDTID- Clean Diesel Technology
This is the worst short squeeze I have ever seen. Eddie, Midas, and everyone else would love your commentary on this.
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