https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/ Long-form writing on how market manipulation works and how it gets caught. en-us Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:02:54 GMT https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/how-spoofing-gets-caught/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/how-spoofing-gets-caught/ The surveillance forensics behind order-book manipulation cases — which measures matter, which produce false positives, and why the strongest evidence is a conditional probability. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT surveillance spoofing detection https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/spoofing-case-teardown/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/spoofing-case-teardown/ A close reading of how spoofing prosecutions are actually built, using the enforcement records in this library rather than the narrative versions. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT spoofing case teardown enforcement https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/is-short-selling-manipulation/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/is-short-selling-manipulation/ Short selling is lawful, useful and constantly described as manipulation. Here is where the line actually falls, and what the enforcement record shows about how often it is crossed. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT short selling explainer contested https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/hunt-brothers-silver-corner/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/hunt-brothers-silver-corner/ The most famous attempted corner in modern markets, and what it teaches about why corners are easy to build and nearly impossible to exit. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT history corners commodities https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/pump-and-dump-moved-to-telegram/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/pump-and-dump-moved-to-telegram/ The mechanic has not changed since the 1920s stock pools. The distribution channel has, and the change made the fraud cheaper to run and far easier to prove. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT pump and dump crypto modern schemes https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/libor-benchmark-design/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/libor-benchmark-design/ The benchmark scandals were not a failure of imagination. The vulnerability was described before it was exploited, and the fix was structural rather than punitive. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT benchmarks design enforcement https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/spoofing-enforcement-since-2015/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/spoofing-enforcement-since-2015/ What this library's own records show about how spoofing and layering enforcement has actually developed, and what the numbers cannot tell you. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT data spoofing enforcement https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/manipulation-insider-trading-fraud/ https://marketmanipulation.org/blog/manipulation-insider-trading-fraud/ Three things that get used interchangeably, are not the same, and attract different statutes, different burdens of proof and different victims. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT explainer taxonomy law