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In the first federal criminal prosecution of its kind, a high-frequency trader was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for disrupting commodity futures prices in a $1.4 million fraud scheme.… Continue Reading
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a New York-based trading firm and one of its co-founders with using a manipulative trading strategy known as “spoofing.”
Briargate Trading LLP and co-founder Eric Oscher “orchestrated a scheme in which they placed sham orders — spoofs — to create the false appearance of interest in stocks and manipulate their prices,” the SEC said.… Continue Reading