I think for most people the stock market manipulation would stand out enough to warrant deeper investigation. - If you never trade in options or short sell, bu

I think for most people the stock market manipulation would stand out enough to warrant deeper investigation. - If you never trade in options or short sell, but the first trade you do is a massive windfall, that will stand out. - To earn a decent amount, you need a lot of exposure to the particular stock. If you're not exposed somewhere else, and only to tesla to maximize this particular great trade, again that stands out. - The above may narrow the scope, so when investigators look at you particularly, does your personal background include technical capabilities that others in the narrowed group would not have. I suspect your correct in the sense, that if you had lots of assets, regularly trade in markets, and can be prepared ahead of the hack that you might be able to pull off market manipulating. But if you stumble into this huge hack as the author sort of points out, and were trying to pull this off before someone else discovers the bug or exploit and are unprepared, for many it doesn't seem likely they'd be able to manipulate the markets without standing out.