Market structure

Wash trading

One economic party trades with itself to manufacture volume or price.

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Overview

One economic party trades with itself to manufacture volume or price.

Gross activity rises without independent risk transfer.

Analyse control, funding, repeated sizes, timing and incentives.

markets

Volume needs counterparties, ownership context and a method before it becomes evidence of manipulation.

markets

The capital recorded in a pool is not necessarily available around the current price.

history

Automated market makers changed who could create a market and where execution costs appeared.

history

A historical indictment illustrates why the source of yield needs evidence.