Is "Manipulators" another word for traders or algo's or am I missing something here?
You do understand how markets work I assume. Buyers, sellers and if there is an imbalance, then prices will move to a new price level (equilibrium)
Morning CV
We can have legal manipulation and illegal manipulation - and I will explain
Obviously this cannot normally be done by any retail traders and normally is all down to the LP's and the Banksters.
The Banks that do legal manipulation just buy and sell again the sentiment of the whole market and maybe the fundamentals
The LPs can actually do illegal manipulation - as happens every day on the EU.
Large commercial organisations do enter very large limit orders and cancel them and also do use dark pools
I am sure you know all the "dark arts " CV - you are an experienced trader
Remember FX is not centrally regulated - and thats its big weakness
Large orders are also held back at times to obviously get better prices - ie if you are buying - then you would prefer to buy as low as possible - and if selling the opposite - you want price going up higher pre entry
I have personally appeared in front of the Monopolies commissions three times in the past - all to do with other market places I was involved with and so have good knowledge of the "dark arts" side of business and as we all know the Finance and Banking industry is a corrupt as it comes ;-))
Regards
F
PS -Also I have some new ideas for renaming this thread ( lol) so will mention later on this week
Good Trading