CMKM Diamonds Inc. (fka CMKX)

[andrius]

When a mutual fund is about to start taking up a big position what regulations are going to catch its managers and their friends from front loading in off shore companies that can't be traced back to them?

Its a shady landscape from pinks all the way highest levels. In many cases watchdogs are the very people enabling scams by design. Why do you think HFTs are legal which is blatant front running? How come SEC doesn't set good laws and enforce them? How come exchanges allow certain interests to set their servers so they get to see order flow and act on it before it hits the exchange? How come people running exchanges and representing big brokers run FINRA and other regulatory bodies? In many cases regulators work for big money interests rather than for everyone to keep markets fair. Fox guarding the chicken coop...