Any action by any market participant which is done intentionally to deceive others. Some things like
- Marking the close - Serious buying or selling moving the market exactly at 15:00.
- Taking Contra positions in cash and derivatives like Jane street and benefiting when cash positions are reversed due to leverage.
- Tell me why market behaves differently on expiry? What does expiry have to do with cash market anyway. I’m sure you noticed there are “quiet” expiries and “violent” expiries. These are well known terms. Quiet expiry, because manipulators sold options and violent because they bought options.
All the above mainly relates to “cross market manipulation”, but there are other notable ones like order spoofing, front running, “painting the tape”, “pump and dump”, etc
https://www.legalcommentary.in/blogs/spoofing-in-the-stock-market
No
Jane street would be tip of the iceberg. But I believe they will colloborate. It’s “organized” crime vs unorganized retailers. If retailers organized like Gamestop, they’d be doing the reverse, at least for a while until money lasts.
Honestly, why is it hard for people here to believe index is manipulated, when even SEBI claims otherwise every month? Is it because you’re making money, that you think there is no manipulation at all?
If any one is looking for a list, here is 2431 pages of list of offenders indicted by SEBI with their accusation and penalty, ordered by date in descending order: