Areo,That view of market manipulation is quite limited (company...

Areo,

That view of market manipulation is quite limited (company announcements and forum postings). The form being referred to is manipulation of the market via targetted buying and/or selling.

There is no doubt this is possible for people with big bucks to play with.

That said, I think a lot of the manipulation calls are being overblown. Think about it: if you had $1m of shares that you decided to sell, surely selling it in 100 * $10k parcels would typically have less of an impact than a single large sell order of $1m....

How exactly do you expect someone to exit a large position *without* affecting the share price ?

mikey