The Definition Of Market Manipulation

>"Market manipulation is the act of artificially inflating or deflating the price of a security or otherwise influencing the behavior of the market for personal gain." - Investopedia

According to most retail investors this means that market manipulation is when an entity with a huge portfolio that buys or sells a large amount of stock can cause large price movements. This is one type of market manipulation, but not what I want to talk about today.

How in 1930 Wyckoff Described What's Happening Today

Richard D. Wyckoff

Who Is Wyckoff?

>Richard Demille Wyckoff (1873–1934) was an early 20th-century pioneer in the technical approach to studying the stock market. He is considered one of the five “titans” of technical analysis, along with Dow, Gann, Elliott and Merrill. At age 15, he took a job as a stock runner for a New York brokerage. Afterwards, while still in his 20s, he became the head of his own firm. He also founded and, for nearly two decades wrote, and edited The Magazine of Wall Street, which, at one point, had more than 200,000 subscribers. Wyckoff was an avid student of the markets, as well as an active tape reader and trader. He observed the market activities and campaigns of the legendary stock operators of his time, including JP Morgan and Jesse Livermore. From his observations and interviews with those big-time traders, Wyckoff codified the best practices of Livermore and others into laws, principles and techniques of trading methodology, money management and mental discipline.

Why I'm Including it in This Post?

>From his position, Mr. Wyckoff observed numerous retail investors being repeatedly fleeced. Consequently, he dedicated himself to instructing the public about “the real rules of the game” as played by the large interests, or “smart money.” In the 1930s, he founded a school which would later become the Stock Market Institute. The school's central offering was a course that integrated the concepts that Wyckoff had learned about how to identify large operators' accumulation and distribution of stock with how to take positions in harmony with these big players. His time-tested insights are as valid today as they were when first articulated.

Basically in 1930 near his death he started writing books about what he learned during his life to

Amc to the moon and all that

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Apes,

Just thought I'd share what I have been suspecting all along. GameStop has become a huge problem!! Not a tiny little annoying problem, no no. This is becoming a thorn in the side of the biggest players on the market. The higher ups thought retail would just tuck their tails between their legs after they coordinated a stoppage back in Jan. Dumb money would just take their licks and go back to life as usual.

Guess what Apes, you fucked up their plan. They were praying all this would just go away and it would be business as usual. Fuck people. They have been literally rewriting the fucking RULES because they can't ignore this problem anymore! The system is getting exposed. Short selling has been going on for years and nobody really cared. A little slight manipulation. Everyone does it. That's just how the industry works.....everyone just cheats a little and if you get caught, they slap a fine on you. Business as usual.

I spoke with some people across multiple industries just friendly catching up type shit since I know what they do. All them said, "You know I can't talk about that" and I respect that. Every single one of them when I asked, are you at least aware the GameStop situation, every SINGLE one just said a version of, "yeah what a fucking mess". EDIT: Mods if you want to contact me, I'm happy to speak to you. I'm taking out the part of the user to reported me because I wouldn't give up my friends names to a rabid pack of HFs lurkers, SEC lurkers, and rabid Apes. His comment is still up but I'll not Dox him even though it's a dick move on his part.

Edit 2: I just wrote u/redchessqueen99 since we have spoken before and she can let me know what she would like from me.

Edit 3: For anyone asking, they didn't give me anything. They literally can't talk about this stuff with people. All I got was a lot of we can't talk about that but what a shit show. SEC- If you are reading this, I would argue if you ask any single person in the world who understands a tiny bit about stocks; they know something is off with GameStop. Doesn't matter which side of the aisle, whether you are a bear or a bull on GME.....everyone knows something funky is going on with GameStop. Maybe you guys should be looking at some Market Makers instead of retail.

Picture this. There

"Will cost companies billions of dollars in compliance costs." Get woke and go broke!

https://fee.org/articles/biden-administration-s-new-woke-corporate-disclosure-rules-will-cost-companies-billions-experts-warn/

If this is true, they planned this almost to the day since we just got confirmation that GameStop sold all 5 million shares. they sold those shares in a HURRY as if something big was about to happen...

And it just so happens to coincide with the much delayed NSCC 002.

This is the kind of shyt that constitutes collusion and market manipulation. Stop posting specific instructions to execute in masse. Just buy and hodl, something else might be illegal.

Edit: Link to the post I just saw. I just wanted to get ahead before becomes a trend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/nulozb/according_to_l2_on_rh_as_of_345_pm_est_if_30k/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

LEAVE ROBINHOOD. They dont deserve to make money off us after the millions they caused in losses. It might take a couple of days, but send Robinhood to the ground and GME to the moon.

TL;DR To all the shills screaming "SuPeRsToNk iS lItErAlLy QaNoN", here is a complete list of market manipulation tactics used by Hedgies so far as documented by PhDs, professors, CEOs, and people that are generally in all accounts way smarter than you. Enjoy. 💎🙌 🚀

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As shills and FUD posts continue to attack apes on their personal decisions to hold GME shares, I feel that it is necessary to create a central hub displaying every market manipulation tactic used by hedge funds in this GameStop Saga so far. To be absolutely honest, the mere fact that there are shills that care so much about other people's personal financial decisions is basically proof that the GameStop situation is not over. That being said, I understand that there are people suspicious of r/Superstonk and that actions by certain members in this subreddit is definitely not helping. If there are any journalists willing to report on this incident, this can be a good place to start researching as well.

This compilation will start with the overall thesis on Naked short selling, the influence of the DTCC, and then go on in a somewhat chronological order of the discovered tactics.

Naked Short Selling

Top of the list is obviously the book Naked, Short and Greedy by Dr. Susanne Trimbath. Below is a link to buy her book.

• Naked, Short and Greedy— Wall Street's Failure to Deliver
  • https://spiramus.com/naked-short-and-greedy

If you are interested in the impact of Naked short selling on proxy voting, here's an article recommended by Dr. Trimbath during the Superstonk AMA. It was written by Bob Drummond and published in Bloomberg Markets.

• Corporate Voting Charade
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20060421085925/http://www.rgm.com/articles/FalseProxies.pdf

And of course, here's the link to the AMA interview with Dr. T herself.

• r/Superstonk Live - Dr. Susanne Trimbath, PhD - April 29, 2021
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGVY2Kco8ng&t=2451s

If you simply want a fairly concise version of what is naked short selling, here is an article published in The Journal of Trading by Robert Brooks and Clay M. Moffett. You should be able to finish this in around 45 minutes.

• **The Naked Truth: Examining Prevailing Practices in Short Sales and th

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Happy Saturday!! 🤙

Did y'all think this cat was gonna sleep on the weekend?!

Go watch the Dr. T AMA if you haven't yet!

Transcription Now Available!

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Important Update regarding SEC posts re: Market Manipulation and Organizing

So the reason for this Saturday Morning Post is an important one. There is a lot of confusion around the sub (and other subs... and twitter...) about what constitutes market manipulation. I, myself have been confused on the legalities and nuances of these terms "manipulation" and "organization".

Which is why I think it's important that you hear from your mod team (which includes several experienced in Law) what we have consulted and found to be accurate information. THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE FROM OR FOR ANYONE!

Yesterday the sub feed was flooded with SEC related hashtag posts which were deemed to be repetitive and clogging the feed, so the mod team did remove several duplicate posts for Spam. This was not a direct endorsement nor denial of the post content, just trying to keep the sub clean from topical bottlenecks while we consult as a team and decide a course of action. Remember this whole thing is extremely fluid and your mods are having to adapt by the minute to keep this rocket steered in the right direction! This is a full time job and we really appreciate your patience! 💖

Spoiler alert: It's totally legal!

I encourage you to read this post by u/vbache who is a Judge and Euro-ape. This particular quote is of note, and directly applies to the topic at hand:

***"I think the ‘we are in this together’-aspect of the situation needs to be reiterated and enforced i

Understanding Market Manipulation tactics. Short tactics explained.

AMC, GME, CLOV - all experiencing these tactics…..Know what is happening:

“Short Attacks Explained”

What is a Short “Ladder” Attack:

Put simply, a short ladder attack is when both sides of the buying and selling of stocks are played (by traders) in an attempt to devalue the stock in question

Shorts manipulate the laws of supply and demand by flooding the offer side with fake shares.

Then, this launches into what is known as a short ladder attack. Think of it this way:

Short A sells a false share at $20. Short B then buys this share.

Following this,

Short B will then offer a counterfeit short at $19. Short A will go for that offer or short B will come down and hit short A’s $19 bid.

Short A then buys the share for $19, covering its open $20 short and taking a $1 profit.

This process repeats, putting the stock price into a downward spiral. Shorts can then begin to flood the market with an attack of false offers, overwhelming the demand on the buying side

Anatomy of A Short attack

Published courtesy of Citizens for Securities Reform

Abusive shorting are not random acts of a renegade hedge funds, but rather a coordinated business plan that is carried out by a collusive consortium of hedge funds and prime brokers, with help from their friends at the DTC and major clearinghouses. Potential target companies are identified, analyzed and prioritized. The attack is planned to its most minute detail.

The plan consists of taking a large short position, then crushing the stock price, and, if possible, putting the company into bankruptcy. Bankrupting the company is a short homerun because they never have to buy real shares to cover and they don't pay taxes on the ill-gotten gain.

When it is time to drive the stock price down, a blitzkrieg is unleashed against the company by a cabal of short hedge funds and prime brokers. The playbook is very similar from attack to attack, and the participating prime brokers and lead shorts are fairly consistent as well.

Typical tactics include the following:

1. Flooding the offer side of the board - Ultimately the price of a stock is found at the balance point where supply (offer) and demand (bid) for the shares find equilibrium. This equation happens every day for every stock traded. On days when more people want to buy than want to sell, the price goes up, and, conversely, wh

Call this a 'no shit, Sherlock' moment, but I believe TD Ameritrade helped keep the price below $60 at close today.

I exercised 10 option contracts today on AMC at 2:53PM CST. I spent more than a half hour chatting with a rep, because the order got held up. Finally, at 3:27PM CST, the rep indicated that my order was filled and I saw the shares in my account. Several hours later, I come back to check my account to see the shares were not delivered, and the option contracts were back in my account.

I went to check my order status to see that the exercise to close was canceled without my knowledge or permission. Moreover, the call options I purchased today for July 16th @ $145 were filled and in my account at 2:02PM & 2:03PM CST when we dipped, but not reported until after market close an hour later.

So not only did they not deliver my shares, but they waited to report the option contracts until after market close. Needless to say, I'm pissed. Here's all the documentation. I'm filing a complaint with the SEC, not that they'll do anything about it.

RED: Option exercise was canceled without me knowing about it. Shares had hit my account, and they reversed and canceled the exercise. PURPLE: When my purchased calls were actually reported.

Timestamps showing when I actually purchased my call options.

Transcript of my chat with TD Ameritrade Rep.

Chat Transcript - 1/2

Chat Transcript 2/2

UPDATE:

Received a message from them last night asking me to call them to get it sorted out. I was going to chat with them this morning as I want everything documented; however, upon checking my account, the shares have been delivered. The weird part is that they were recorded as being delivered two days from now. Is it possible that TDA has a time machine or there is still some fuckery afoot?

[Shares shown as delivered and paid for two days from now. My account shows shares in there and paid for.](https://preview.redd.it/8sbmdx3si8671.png?width=95

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This Could Trigger SEC Action

AMC Sells $230MM In Stock As CEO Issues Challenge To Shorts

AMC announced the sale of another 8.5 million AMC shares (this followed just three weeks after the company raised $428MM in share) to Mudrick Capital at a price of about $27.12 each. The offering price was, strangely enough, a premium to Friday's close of $26.12.

AMC then tumbled as Mudrick sold its entire stake for a profit citing the company is overvalued.

This was nothing but an extremely shady backroom ploy between Citadel and Mudrick Capital to force even the staunchest bears to cover their shorts, in the process allowing Mudrick to offload not just the 8.5 million shares the fund had purchased at $27.12, but the millions of shares it owned from purchases made far lower.

TLDR ;

Let me summarize this for people:

1. AMC begins to rise

2. Citadel colluded with other hedge fund manager to dump to him 8.5 million shares.

3. This further perpetuated the short squeeze but was not meant to. It in fact caused a bullish tide which thrashed through the retail markets.

4. Hedge fund manager then sells ALL the shares to retail investors locking in a FULL PROFIT in less then 1 trading session (He got them after market close Friday, sold hours later).

If me and you did that, we would be in jail for stock manipulation.

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The dumbass admits right here that he manipulates the market. Any lawyer worth his salt could annihilate this douchebag. I mean read the literal definition of the word Manipulation. It is 100% what he says he does in this video..

ma·nip·u·la·tion/məˌnipyəˈlāSHən/noun

1. 1.the action of manipulating something in a skillful manner."the format allows fast picture manipulation"
2. 2.the action of manipulating someone in a clever or unscrupulous way."there was no deliberate manipulation of visitors' emotions"

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Hello, my fellow apes.

I'm sorry to waste your time, but I need to rant a bit. I need to rant because I'm pissed off. This would also probably strain the limits of my English seen that it's not my first language, so apologies for typos and whatever.

I've had a weird discussion with a colleague this morning, at my work place. Back in January, I have little to no clue on how the system works (well, to be fair: I knew what a stock was, how shorting worked and the basis of the market because my father explained to me back in the days, but I knew nothing about trading apps) and just before the Christmas holidays he told me about eToro. Long story short, he's the reason why on Christmas I took some interest in what was happening to all those posts from Wallstreetbets in New. Sadly, I missed the train in December and in January, I bought my first stock in February because I decided to not use eToro and I had some trouble while registering on Degiro that took me one month to solve.

My colleague knew I was interested in an app for trading only to follow the GME saga. To be completely fair, in the beginning I was just hoping to gain enough money to buy a new kitchen, but now I'm stubbornly in: he told me to sell at 120 because I bought at 40, I told him that I wouldn't even consider it. The fact that I'm heavily in the green even after I bought more stocks later on the rollercoaster and that I've only YOLOed money I can accept to lose without putting me in economic strains definitely helps. Sorry, I digress.

Now, sometimes, since January we discuss stocks in front of the coffee machine. And today he told me that he's copying a new investor in eToro (or, how I joke with him, "he used the lazy way of the blind follower"): he said he was happy with this investor because he had two rules. The first one was "no shorting, only buying", and I said "fair enough, I'm not brave enough to short either seen that I want to know exactly how much I risk to lose". The second one was "no GME". I asked "Why is that rule important to you?" and he said "Because you're colluding with other people and that's illegal, and also it's immoral to play GME right now". I did ask him what he meant by "immoral" specifically, because I was expecting everything: we're like a MLM, we're a cult, we're crazy, manipulated, whatever. Get ready for it, the answer was, and I quote, "It's immoral because you're trying to destroy the financial market". Of course, that was the end of the discussion on m

I'm a smooth brained ape, but I just realized something that I find quite interesting and soothing. I'm by no means a stock expert, but I think I have a pretty good grasp concerning the market manipulation that we have seen.

• In late January price rose to 19,90, since they covered millions of shorted stock. This covering brought them 7 million FTDs.

This created a massive problem: Since the share price was 19,90 they were burdened with an immense load of FTD's. They couldn't deliver those shares without rising the price further. Their only option was to short the hell out of the stock and try to generate an feedback loop that would lower the price. So they start doing that and covering those FTDs. They manage to do it, the FTD's are covered, but they have brought the price to 14$ and burdened themselves even with more shorts. So they start shorting it.

The catch-22 i'm going for is this:

• In order to cover the FTD's the stock has to be shorted
• Which burdens them with shorts, but they get rid of FTD
• They cover the shorts which bring more FTD
• Repeat

Do you see where I'm going with this? They are locked in a cycle and the original market forces are slowly but steadidy spinning out of their control. All they can control is the price, and it indeed changes and fluctuates, but due to the zero-sum nature of the marketplace the value doesn't change before anyone sells.

Think of it like this - there's 10 apes sitting around a table playing a game of selling and buying bananas. On a closer look two of them are actually lions from the same herd in disguise. Everyone at the table has some money and 10 bananas, the bananas have a price of 1$, but their real value is unknown, but believed to be very high. The two lions (who are actually playing together) sell 1 banana back and forth between each other. They sell it first for 1$, then with 0,98$, 0,99$, and so on. While selling they create huge fuss, telling the apes to do the same, since soon their bananas will be worthless. But in order for the value to change the others have to start selling.

if I understand this correctly and this is what they've been doing through the darkpools, the manipulation of the price is true, but the manipulation of the value is impossible. I think this has something to do with the so called nash-equilibrium, which states that single player in a game cannot affect the whole.

**The manipulation cannot last, because no one is winning and no one is

Meanwhile, I received two notifications about $COIN being up 7% on the day... Gimme a break!

They don't want us to know... They want to keep us in the dark... Not a conspiracy. It's ridiculous.

Anyways... Remain calm. Breathe. Buy. Hold. Patience.

The time will come.

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Proof was posted today showing routing of buy orders through dark pools in order to hide demand and suppress the price.

Meanwhile all sell orders are going through regular channels to make it appear as if people are selling and there is no demand.

THIS is what should be residing high up for all to see.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/n95vzr/someone_is_turding_in_the_dark_pools_again/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

***For those who state Dave Lauer disproved this, he commented on the above Reddit post saying he has yet to see what we're referencing and that he's going to dig into the data.

Legitimate findings are being posted all the time, let them get researched before drawing your own conclusions so we can all progress forward, not backward, upward, not forward and always twirling, twirling, twirling toward lift off, thank you***

Meanwhile bullshit mayo memes are being pumped and this GMEisME noise rammed down people's throats.

They are actively robbing you and suppressing the price. They are going to drag this out as hard as they can.

Don't lose faith, don't lose hope. If they're doing something so blatantly illegal for all to see they have to be desperate.

Upvote the solid info, especially anything explaining price drops that make no sense.

Sure, memes are a cornerstone, but we don't need the same shit spammed endlessly.

Patience and time are our weapons as the hedgies wait and bleed. They get more desperate and attack further only to give use sweet sweet discounts on a larger pile of tendies.

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To the shills voting this down;

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