Market Manipulation
Manipulating market prices through unnecessary trading among agents is also a violation. In this kind of manipulation, agents and/or broker-dealers agree to buy and sell securities to each other at the same price to give the impression that a security has a more active market than it actually does in order to drive up the price of the security. This is called making matched trades.
It is also a violation for a broker-dealer or agent to manipulate the price of a security by sp