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avendo un pò di tempo da perdere mi son messo alla ricerca di novità sul fantomatico conto 990N , ho trovato cose interessanti per quanto opinabili:
990N - S&P market manuplation by 1 party
The Daily Reckoning has more..
...I am actually writing you to alert you to this complete market manipulation and to see if you had any pull to get the word out to different traders and the media. I am one of the biggest S&P traders in the world as far as volume per day in that I average over 40,000 round turns per day on the screen in the e-mini. I tell you this because that is how I know one house is completely manipulating the market everyday because of all the trades I do with this guy. I know it sounds hard to believe that one person can control a world market but trust me: this is occurring. He works for the firm Gelber, which is house 990.
This is the basic premise for his game. He waits until the market is relatively slow, around 9:30 to 10:00 everyday, usually when the "paper trade" starts to subside then he begins a theme, mostly always long and he begins to buy. He is always looking for confirmation of his theme with what other people are doing.
When the market stops trading in his direction he then drops in a offer of 300 to 700 which he sees if anyone is interested in buying it. If there is no interest he then buys the order from himself, with the order actually trading. He does this enough times until he attracts other buyers which then hits price points and the market runs violently in his direction.
I am sure I do not have to tell you that this is completely illegal to do. He started doing this with 300 lots back in November, now he has made so much money doing it that he is up to 2000 lots. He is completely in control of the market (illegally) the majority of the time.
My firm and I have contacted the Merc on three different occasions with video proof that I recorded of my trading. It shows blatantly this guy crossing his orders thousands of times a day. The first person we talked to in compliance admitted that he saw something there when they reviewed the video of the trades I taped of him. He was mysteriously fired the next day.
We then came up with more examples for them to review and in the beginning claimed he wasn't doing it. We called them a third time, this time talking to the head of compliance and he finally admitted that they had the guy under investigation because they saw something, but in the meantime he is still allowed to trade and make millions until their "investigation" is concluded.
They obviously love the volume the guy is putting up and how it makes the emini S&P look from a standpoint of a liquid market. But if the public had knowledge of what this guy was doing I don't think they would be too impressed with the liquidity.
There is obviously some kind of cover-up. Do any of the pit traders you know have knowledge this is happening? And do you have any advice on how I can anonymously get the word out with what this guy is doing? I know you are not a true tick by tick "scalper," but this is getting to the point where it is starting to effect everyone in the marketplace.
Please let me know what you think.
http://dailyreckoning.com/home.cfm?loc=/body_headline.cfm&qs=id=3984
by Al Frankhart Jun 24, 2004 at 02:44 PM
here are two separate posts in that Daily Reckoning article.
Re: Ginger's 990N post from the guy who trades 40K cars/day in the emini
and his comments about a liquidity mirage.
This is consistent with what I am seeing intraday. I think there may well
be a lack of liquidity at these nose-bleed levels and the tape is being
painted to give a false impression.
If you look at the emini S&P during periods of narrow movement, you will
see between 1,000 and 2,000 cars at each of the first 5 prices either
side of the last (5 is all the CME transmits). The implication is that it
will take at least 7,500 (assuming an average of 1,500 at each level) to
move the market 5 ticks in any direction.
If it were such levels of volume that actually moved the market, I would
have no problem with the sizes that I see at these levels. However, when
the market does move out of these narrow ranges, it does so on very
little or no volume. Typically, those five ticks are covered with less
than 1K cars being traded - often much less.
IMO, that is the REAL level of liquidity in this market. The rest of the
size at these prices is all smoke and mirrors. If not, then one would
have to stretch the imagination and believe that 6,500 of these contracts
are all being pulled in unison by as many as 100s if not 1000s of
different traders across the globe all at the same instant. Yes -that
could happen occasionally but this is happening multiple times during the
day - every day. Miraculously, once the move is complete on so few
trades, the thousands of contracts re-appear to once again ‘collar' the
market.
So, to stretch credulity even further, one would then have to believe
that these same unconnected traders who lifted all those orders in
unison, now put them back on again in equally perfect harmony.
Once the collar is back on, I have seen as many as 100K cars traded over
the next 3,4 hours and the market will spend most of that time in a 5
tick range with very brief excursions outside it (e.g. see 6/21 from
10:30 until 2:00 ET). So a 5 tick range that is traversed easily on [1K
cars is then unable to breakout of a 5 tick range for hours despite ]
100K being traded ??
It is far more likely that the market is being controlled and that those
sizes are being placed (and lifted), not by 100s or 1000s of unconnected
traders but by just one or two entities.
If you compare those sizes and market action with the Euro FX at the CME,
you never see anything even remotely like that collaring process. Why?
The Spoos are the lead for the market - even though it is a derivative,
many traders and programs key off it to initiate trades. It is also the
last great unrestricted, and leveraged Shorting vehicle and I think they
are scared shitless of the ease with which people can now Short and the
speed with which Short volume can accumulate.
The Euro FX, on the other hand leads nothing - It only follows the Forex
market which is much too big to control or collar. BTW – To see the
difference that is so noticeable to those who have traded the S&P for a
long time on an intraday basis: – the way the Euro FX trades is the way
the S&P used to.
The trader also wrote: “I know it sounds hard to believe that one person
can control a world market but trust me that is what is occurring”.
This only makes the story sound unnecessarily less believable. This isn't
one PERSON controlling a world market. It may be one person placing the
orders but then, that's all it takes to place the orders - one person.
There is no way that any one person would dare to do what this guy is
doing without it being underwritten by somebody huge and with the
knowledge and complicity of those who could, and should, stop it.
Otherwise, if this guy was really independent and placing all these Bids
with his own money, how long do you think it would take GS et al. to sell
a couple hundred thousand Spoos and blow him out of the water - maybe 3
seconds - tops.
The S&P dwarfs the silver market and look what happened to the Bunker-
Hunts when they tried to control it. And now we're supposed to believe
that a ‘no name' has been doing it for months/years with the S&P ??
No - this guy is just doing someone else's bidding. That he has been
doing it, I no longer have any doubt. That the big houses haven't
destroyed him and the CME has permitted it to occur is more troubling and
painting the tape to give the appearance of liquidity is as good a reason
as propping. Both reasons are an even better excuse to do it.
FWIW - Members fees are capped at $50/day in the eminis. It only takes
100 R/Ts to reach that and then all trades are free. So, if cross trades
are being permitted, then there is effectively zero overhead in engaging
in the practice on this scale.
http://www.talkaboutinvestments....vest.stocks/messages/873268.html