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The Market Manipulation Reference Desk
An education and reference library explaining market-manipulation techniques alongside a searchable record of enforcement actions.
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The reference library groups 52 techniques into six families, including order-book, benchmark, issuer-structural, and crypto-native schemes. Its case index reports 2,348 enforcement actions, $15.4 billion in total penalties, and a $255,000 median penalty, with entries identifying agencies, filing dates, techniques, penalties, and statuses. The site also separates commonly conflated subjects such as insider trading, churning, front running, and Ponzi schemes from its stated definition of manipulation.
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