Wash Trading

Wash trading is buying and selling the same asset with yourself, or with a colluding party, to manufacture volume without any change in ownership. It in…

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What is Wash Trading in crypto trading?

Wash trading is buying and selling the same asset with yourself, or with a colluding party, to manufacture volume without any change in ownership. It inflates reported turnover, games rankings that reward volume and makes a market look liquid when it is not. Small-venue and new-token volume is frequently mostly wash.

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