Stock buybacks are different from wash trading. When a company does a stock buyback it’s abundantly clear that the company is buying its own stock. The point

Stock buybacks are different from wash trading. When a company does a stock buyback it’s abundantly clear that the company is buying its own stock. The point of wash trading is to make it seem like there’s more activity around a traded security than there really is. You’re artificially pumping the books and it’s extremely illegal with regular stocks