Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, August 20, 2010
“Dark Pool” Stock Market Manipulation Continues / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Christopher_Quigley
Traders and investors please be aware that the “Flash Crash” of May 6th. was not an isolated incident. I attach two recent examples of similar “events”. The forces that worked in May last are still alive and functioning, however, rather than directing their forces market-wise, they are now targeting specific stocks with very profitable consequences.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Goldman's Derivatives Clearing Service: The Better To Cheat You With My Dear / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
Say, aren't Goldman the fellows that just pled to fraudulent dealing in financial instruments like MBS, and paid a fairly hefty 500+ million dollar fine? The company is starting a centralized clearing facility for derivatives, which may be among those mandated for use by market participants, in the US government mandated efforts to reform.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Guilty of Market Manipulation CEO of IKB Bank, Did Goldman Sachs Commit Fraud? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Financial news media is abuzz with analyses of Goldman Sachs's settlement with the SEC for $550 million in a case of alleged fraud regarding the packaging and selling of a CDO called Abacus. Goldman Sachs admitted to no wrong-doing. The settlement is less than Tiger Wood's potential $700 million divorce settlement--and Tiger didn't help bring the economy to its knees (he also publicly admitted his transgressions and expressed regret)--but it's a start.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Gold Price Manipulation Prior to Options Expiration Exposed / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jason_Hamlin
Gold futures expire today, June 28th. If you follow the manipulation theories, it is just prior to expiration time, either in futures or options, that paper shorts increase their net short positions in order to manipulate precious metals (and stocks) downward. This allows the manipulators to profit as the contracts they sold to unwitting investors expire worthless. The sudden drop in price also provides an opportunity for the shorts to cover their positions, profiting via paying back their creditors with lower priced gold or equities.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Matt Simmons Shorting BP Stock, Oil Spill Conflict of Interest on Mainstream Media Interviews / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Static_Chaos
After busy making several outrageous comments regarding BP and the Gulf oil spill as recent as last evening, Matt Simmons abruptly announced today that he would retire from the board of Simmons & Co.--the company he founded in 1974--effective June 30.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Wall Street's Advice to Joran van der Sloot / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Before we get to your problem areas, we'd like to congratulate you on almost having "the right stuff." You are a manipulator and an unabashed liar. You have no remorse. You are a master at twisting things to suggest your victims had it coming, and you don't think of them as human beings.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
EXTEND & PRETEND: Its either RICO Act or Control Fraud / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Gordon_T_Long
We are entering the Age of Rage.
It is presently most visible in Europe as austerity programs that potentially could shred a half century of social entitlement advances are met with increasingly violent street demonstrations. It is seen in the US Tea Party rallies with their fury that the very fabric which the US capitalist system is based on is being destroyed and discarded. Unfortunately these demonstrations of rage are focusing on the effects and not the cause. The cause is a systemic plaque of unenforced financial control fraud.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Max Keiser Report: Goldman Sachs, Undeclared Enemy of the State, Financial Terrorism / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Videos
This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of naked short selling, supplementary liquidity providers and the conspiracy of banks. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Jim Rickards about naked short selling and overwhelming the specialist system, Wall Street banks undermining Greece and Goldman Sachs as an undeclared national enemy.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Financial Terrorism, Homeland Security Calls on Max Keiser to Help / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
Here is an email from a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security to Max Keiser regarding Financial Terrorism. Both the email and Max Keiser's response had me laughing my head off.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Gold, Silver Market Manipulation, CFTC Aftershocks / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jennifer_Barry
On March 25, fifteen individuals selected by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) testified to that body on proposed position limits for the precious metals markets. One big surprise was the inclusion of Bill Murphy, Chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). Although his organization has been blacklisted by the mainstream American media, he was able to enter some of GATA’s eleven years of research into the public record. Although only allowed to speak for a few minutes, Murphy’s testimony covered territory ranging from the “strong dollar” policy, the lack of transparency from the Federal Reserve on gold swaps, and the CFTC’s own stalled silver market investigation.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Flash Stock Market Crash, Biggest Heist in U.S. History / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Submissions
VernontheGerman writes: I wanted to bring to your attention the events that transpired Thursday 6th May between 2:41pm and 2:57pm.
In those 16 min one of the largest heists in American history occurred. It was said that up to one trillion dollars was lost and regained in that time.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Day the Free Market Died / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Christopher_Quigley
Following quite a number of requests this brief will deal with my understanding of what transpired last Thursday the 6th. May when just after 2.30 PM the Dow Industrials collapsed by nearly 10% and then suddenly recovered in 11 minutes. The implications of what occurred are far reaching and unless the regulatory issues are resolved we can expect similar “events” of like nature.
Monday, May 10, 2010
"Banging" the U.S. Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Chicago residents grew up to the sound of local early morning radio rundowns of pork belly futures and other exchange traded commodities. Every trick in the book from manipulation of soybeans to silver has played out in Chicago's trading pits. Every market professional I've talked to in Chicago since Thursday is of the same opinion. It makes no difference whether human beings or computers are front running and manipulating trades. The gyrations in the market last week have the look and feel of classic market manipulation.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Goldman Sachs Rigged Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Ellen_Brown
Last week, Goldman Sachs was on the congressional hot seat, grilled for fraud in its sale of complicated financial products called “synthetic CDOs.” This week the heat was off, as all eyes turned to the attack of the shorts on Greek sovereign debt and the dire threat of a sovereign Greek default. By Thursday, Goldman’s fraud had slipped from the headlines and Congress had been cowed into throwing in the towel on its campaign to break up the too-big-to-fail banks. On Friday, Goldman was in settlement talks with the SEC.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Let Goldman Sachs Interrogate the SEC / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Fred_Sheehan
Since April 16, 2010, when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicted Goldman Sachs on fraud charges, the bank must approach each day wishing it could stay in bed. New charges and rumors of lawsuits swirl around the firm. Goldman will have its day (or, years) in court, but the government agency that rolled the snowball down the mountain should also sit in the dock.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Hollywood and The Rigging of Financial Markets / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Ellen_Brown
Betting on the Gross Profits of Upcoming Movies - As if attacks from popparazzi and star-crazed fans weren’t enough, Hollywood stars may soon have a literal price put on their heads by investors in the Cantor Exchange, a real-money trading platform where people can bet on the gross profits of upcoming movies. Sales of The Dark Knight skyrocketed after Heath Ledger died unexpectedly, and so did sales after the deaths of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Will greed-driven investors now be laying in wait for the stars of movies they have sold short?
Friday, April 30, 2010
Prosecutors Should Investigate Goldman Sachs on Baidu Trading / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Static_Chaos
In light of the fact that Baidu stock is now valued at $700 instead of $27 asserted by Goldman Sachs as the “fair value” (by the way, Goldman has never been so wrong on price targets.), and the fact that Goldman actively trades against its clients, it is now high time for the U.S. federal prosecutors probe into Goldman’s trading practice of Baidu IPOs as well.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Merrill Lynch Did a Deal ‘Precisely’ Like Goldman’s, Suit Asserts / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: ProPublica
Ryan Knutson writes: As we've been reporting, other banks did deals similar to the one at the center of the SEC's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Financial Markets Computerized Front Running Using High Frequency Trading Programs and Fraud / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Ellen_Brown
While the SEC is busy investigating Goldman Sachs, it might want to look into another Goldman-dominated fraud: computerized front running using high-frequency trading programs.
Market commentators are fond of talking about “free market capitalism,” but according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser, it is no more. It has morphed into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls “rigged market capitalism”: all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Conflict of Interest in Market Transactions / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: PhilStockWorld
Ilene writes: FINRA may have potential massive conflicts of interests in its dealing with its internal investment portfolio. A clear example is FINRA’s behavior with its Auction Rate Securities. Evidence suggests FINRA sold its Auction Rate Securities months before the market collapsed. Insider information or really good luck?