Even if it's just coincidental, its still an unusual and I think interesting observation. Catalogue it and perhaps consider sending it to ASIC if you suspect your suspicions are accurate.
As I quoted before: "Looking only at penalties of $1 million or more, the parents with the most cases of that size are all banks, including UBS (114), Bank of America (111), JPMorgan Chase (101), and Citigroup (98)."
And here's the last week of data from MarketLens sorted by Total Volume.
Lot of those players active here. I'm definitely not accusing anyone of anything. Just posting data. It is my logical but evidentially unsupported hunch, that for every time somebody is caught, there are probably countless other times nobody notices.
Anyway, whatever. As Jesse Livermore once said "There is nothing new in Wall St."
And as Warren Buffet noted "You've got to be prepared when you buy a stock to have it go down 50% or more and be comfortable with it, as long as you're comfortable with the holding."
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