Pump and Dump
Pump and Dump covers a Trader Slang glossary entry, profiled by proprietarytrading.com.
Trader Slang
A pump and dump is artificially inflating an asset's price through promotion, then selling at the inflated price.
A pump and dump is the practice of artificially inflating an asset''s price through misleading promotion, then selling at the inflated price. Illegal in regulated equity markets and a known issue in low-cap crypto and microcap stocks.
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