Tag: spoofing

Regulator gets tough on Spoofing

Regulator gets tough on Spoofing

It would be nice if this were a statement related to Betfair, but hey, such is life.

This actually is a statement from regulators in financial markets. Spoofing there is consider a form of market manipulation and therefore is illegal. The deal in financial markets is if you manipulate a market to profit it’s wrong. The rationale behind this is that you are tricking people out of their money. This doesn’t add any value to the market and is a …

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Worst trade ever?

Worst trade ever?

I wonder if this was the worst trade ever, or maybe just a blinding cock up of some sort by somebody?

Anybody trading this market couldn’t have failed to notice the sudden appearance of a £100k order in the book. This person was desperate to get filled on the back side and the order persisted for ages. I can only speculate what happened here,  as when I looked at the data I couldn’t clearly see any particular strategy behind it. …

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