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# Market Manipulation
Manipulation of [price formation](price-formation.md) and the natural operation of a [market](market.md). Can be performed by both [market makers](market-maker.md) and [cartels](cartel.md).
## Front Running
Using inside information about future orders to preempt market movements and extract from other market participants.
See [front-running](front-running.md)
## Insider Trading
See [asymmetric-information](asymmetric-information.md).
## Wash Trading
See [wash-trading](wash-trading.md).
## Pump and Dumps
See [pump and dump](pump-and-dump.md).
## Order Tampering
Altering of [order book](order-book.md) to privilege the market maker or a [cartel](cartel.md) of insiders.
## Halting
Discretionary halting of the [market](market.md) in order to prevent price movement the [market maker](market-maker.md) does not wish to occur.
## Redemption Manipulation
Discretionary restriction of the sale of assets for [currency](currency.md).
## References
1. Ostroff, Patricia Kowsmann and Caitlin. 2021. Binance Froze When Bitcoin Crashed. Now Users Want Their Money Back. Wall Street Journal, 11 July 2021, sec. Markets. https://www.wsj.com/articles/binance-froze-when-bitcoin-crashed-now-users-want-their-money-back-11626001202.
1. Lefevre, Edwin. 2004. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Vol. 175. John Wiley & Sons.
1. Dhawan, Anirudh, and Talis J. Putnins. 2020. A New Wolf in Town? Pump-and-Dump Manipulation in Cryptocurrency Markets. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3670714.
1. Hamrick, JT, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Neil Gandal, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. 2018a. An Examination of the Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Ecosystem. http://ssrn.com/paper=3303365.
1. ———. 2018b. The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes.
1. Kamps, Josh, and Bennett Kleinberg. 2018. To the Moon: Defining and Detecting Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dumps. Crime Science 7 (1): 18.
1. Lefevre, Edwin. 2004. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Vol. 175. John Wiley & Sons.
1. Li, Tao, Donghwa Shin, and Baolian Wang. 2019. Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes. Available at SSRN 3267041.
1. Xu, Jiahua, and Benjamin Livshits. 2019. The Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Scheme. In 28th USENIX Security Symposium, 160925.