Some of us have nothing to do with Monk, but we are learning the ropes by watching the tape and watching what happens on slow days and days with no liquidity.
The accommodations made by the COMEX to JP Morgan in the silver market are a good current example of blatant manipulation in a major market.
Smaller daily manipulations are easy to see in the poorly regulated OTC market.
I watched the entire retail customer base of Ameritrade get taken by a DNS attack in 2004. Ameritrade refused to take measures to protect its clients. The Wall Street Journal did not report on it. The FBI did not follow up on my complaint.
Jag makes a good point. One company's exploitation proves that the loopholes exist. If one hedge fund used them you can bet that others are doing the same thing.
Wall Street is incestuous. It will protect its own.
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