Artificial price

An artificial price is one that does not reflect the genuine forces of supply and demand. Proving artificiality is a required element of a classic price manipulation claim under the Commodity Exchange Act, and it is frequently the hardest element to establish.

law and enforcement · updated 2026-11-06

See also

• Market manipulation — Market manipulation is conduct that interferes with the honest formation of a price — through fake orders, coordinated trades, fal…
• Price discovery — Price discovery is the process by which trading aggregates dispersed information into a price. Manipulation is harmful precisely b…

Terms that refer here

Account takeover attack · Market manipulation · Open-market manipulation · Pegging, fixing and stabilising · Price discovery · Prophylactic rule · Ramping

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