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How to Legally Manipulate Stock Prices

Manipulating stock prices can happen quite easily, and it takes place more often than you might think. Achieving it in a perfectly legal way is no more difficult, depending on how much trading power you have.

Individual stock investors don't have ready access to these types of techniques and, consequently, they often end up on the losing end of these schemes.

Large institutional investors, because of their huge purchasing power, have the ability to drive prices down and then buy back into the stock at a low price. These large investors ride that price up as others join the rally, and then pocket a hefty profit as a result.

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