Talk:Spoofing (finance)

Definitions of spoofing with sources

• 2012 "During the autumn of 2011, Finansinspektionen (FI) conducted an investigation into high frequency and algorithmic trading on the Swedish equity market" and concluded that Financial Supervisory Authority (Sweden)

"High frequency trading (HFT) is very limited among the actors on the Swedish market. Only three of the 24 companies surveyed state that they use HFT in their operations. However, 20 companies respond that they use different types of algorithms. A total of 22 companies believe that unfair trading practices related to algorithmic trading and HFT are present on the market. The strategies mentioned most often include:

• spoofing/layering: a strategy of placing orders that is intended to manipulate the price of an instrument, for example through a combination of buy and sell orders.
• quote stuffing: the submission of a large volume of orders to a marketplace with the intention of slowing down the trading systems of other actors or hiding one's own strategy.
• momentum ignition: initiating or enhancing a trend through the aggressive placement of orders in the hope that others will follow, which creates an opportunity to reverse a position.
• last second withdrawal: the cancellation of orders at the final second of a call procedure.

There was also reference to an increase in front running on the market, which in the absence of an existing definition has also come to be used for attempts to identify opportunities and place orders on the market ahead of others, without any knowledge about client orders. Seven companies add, however, that unfair strategies have existed on the market for a long time and are not just related to HFT."

— Finansinspektionen (FI) 2012

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