Crypto-Asset Regulation · glossary

Market manipulation

Any trade, order or statement that gives a false or misleading signal about the supply, demand or price of a crypto-asset. A false signal is enough, and nobody has to be tricked into a trade. Surveillance watches for wash trading, spoofing, layering and pump-and-dump. Binder §8.3 · Chapter 8

Explained in Chapter 8, Market Abuse, of Crypto-Asset Regulation.

How it comes up, in Chapter 8
Market manipulation is any trade, order or statement that gives a false or misleading signal about the supply, demand or price of a crypto-asset (Article 91). Holding a price at an artificial level is caught too. Nobody has to be tricked into a trade, because the false signal is enough. The Binder names the four patterns that Halcyon's surveillance looks for…
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