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It is only a matter of time before someone attempts this without using too much leverage and credit to make the purchases. The regulators and industries only t
by cloudjacker 10y ago
It is only a matter of time before someone attempts this without using too much leverage and credit to make the purchases.
The regulators and industries only tool is raising margin requirements (how big your down payment is), as well as position size limits per account
- cm2187 10y agoCornering the market is outright illegal.
- taprun 10y agoHow is cornering the market outright illegal? And in which jurisdiction? There are plenty of examples where one company has a strongly dominant share. Diamonds are an obvious example, search engines are another.
- pjc50 10y agoCommodity trading in the major markets (US, EU) has rules against cornering and other forms of obvious market manipulation. Obviously that only applies to "commodities", whereas it's accepted that manufactured goods have a limited number of suppliers regulated by patent. The entire market for pharmaceuticals is "cornered" in that sense.
- DannyBee 10y agoYeah, i mean, it's not like silly things related to market manipulation in commodities happened for many years before anything was done about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-11-20/the-goldman-sachs-aluminum-conspiracy-was-pretty-silly https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-11-20/the-goldm... etc
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- gech 10y ago"The rest was borrowed from over 20 banks and brokerage houses."