I think it is legal to manipulate stocks. That's what we all do here, remember prediction of closing 10c on Friday, weeks even month ago, when AGO hit 5c?
Buying and selling shares - it is fully legal. We all do it, to make money. You here mostly try to increase SP, but hedge funds they play both ways.
Can we complain that many fraudsters here lured us into AGO, and when I posted my research, charts, IO port stocks in China, etc, they attacked me and later on banned completely?
(ok, maybe they banned me correctly for trolling those long-holders)..