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What Is Spoofing in the Financial Markets?
Author: Joseph Young Spoofing is a form of market manipulation where a trader places fake buy or sell orders, never intending for them to get filled by the market. Spoofing is usually done using algorithms and bots in an attempt to manipulate the market and asset prices by creating a false sense of supply or demand. Spoofing is illegal across many major markets, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Introduction
What is spoofing?
How markets typically respond to spoofing
When is spoofing less effective?
Is spoofing illegal?
Why spoofing is bad for the markets
Closing thoughts
What Is Spoofing in the Financial Markets?
About Lesson

So, spoofing is illegal and generally has a detrimental effect on the markets, but why? Well, spoofing may cause price changes that otherwise aren’t reflected in supply and demand. Meanwhile, as spoofers are in control of these price movements, they can profit off of them. 

Regulators in the U.S. have also expressed concerns about market manipulation in the past. As of December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected all Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) proposals. When approved, an ETF allows more traditional investors in the U.S. to get exposure to an asset, such as Bitcoin. There are usually several factors mentioned for rejecting the proposals – one of these is that they don’t consider the Bitcoin market immune to market manipulation. 

This, however, may be changing as the Bitcoin markets enter into a new phase of maturity with increased liquidity and institutional adoption.

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