ARU Sharemarket Manipulation

[Fundamental]

We can't expect the Regulators to get off their backsides and actually do anything unless they are forced too. ASIC is beheld to the Brokers who run the ASX. I thought High Frequency trading by Algo's to manipulate the course of sales had been banned, apparently not. China thru its proxies have now demonstrated that they can use HFT to control the stock markets,

The only way to force ASIC to take action will be to embarrass Albanese, unfortunately it seems that the mum & dad Australian voter have no leverage, Only Donald can do that, so he has to be made aware of this situation that can scupper his Goal.

 

[John]

A small, per trade tax/levy would destory all this algo trading and manipulation. And also fund ASIC to go after all the insider/institution illegal practices.

We need a campaign to write to all ministers.

We also need a really easy way to explain it...so that non financial people can understand.

 

[Nomad]

I came across this UBS piece on another forum.
I don't 100% know what positions UBS has myself as I do not have access to the data, but if they do hold short positions in ASX listed rare earth stocks then I would think this is a clear cut case of "short and distort" is it not?

https://www.afr.com/markets/commodi...laying-the-rare-earths-sector-20251031-p5n6pj



There are only two points here:

1) They have a short position (true or false)
2) Providing it has originated from the shorter, this press is intentionally spreading negative market sentiment (market commentary that is opion not actual fact) with the intent of subduing buying (true or false)

If the answer to both of these is true then I see it as pretty clear cut.