Stock Fraud
While you may not need to worry about stock fraud when trading for your own forex account, any investor or speculator in the financial markets would do well to at least have a basic familiarity of what is involved in a stock fraud.
Unlike foreign currencies which trade in a huge, global marketplace, stocks of small companies can lend themselves to manipulation and fraudulent practices more readily. The primary reason for this has to do with the nature of the stock market and the comparative lack of liquidity which does not usually present an issue in the currency market because of its size and depth.
As a result, stocks tend to be more carefully regulated and monitored by agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission which was founded in the aftermath of the huge stock market crash of 1929. A variety of different fraudulent practices involving stocks are listed in the sections below. Read the rest of this entry »
