Pool operation
pool operations (market manipulation)
A pool operation is a form of market manipulation that artificially and temporarily changes the price of a security’s shares in order to secure the pool's participants with a profit.
Pool operations may deploy overlapping, but not the same exact, tactics as other forms of market manipulation, such as boiler room operations.
Pool operations contributed to the Wall Street crash of 1929 and were the subject of multiple congressional hearings and investigations, including the Pujo Committee and the Pecora Commission. The existence of pool operations led to securities-related legislative and regulatory changes that arose in the 1930s, including the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Traditional and newer versions of pool operations continue to exist to this day in North America and Asia.
Basics of pool operations
In market manipulation, a pool operation refers to a planned attempt by several individuals (the “pool”) to artificially alter the price of a security towards a target price. The pool’s incipient intent is to temporarily simulate organic public demand for a security when, in fact, it is a relatively small number of individuals, brokers, and other market professionals who are largely driving the price of the security at the outset of the operation. The alteration in price typically occurs in the absence of any fundamental changes that would otherwise justify the change in price or the target price. When the pool operation’s price objective is reached, the pool disposes of its holdings onto the market. This often causes the security's price to decline.
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