# Entity Title: Market Drive  
## Definition  
A tactic employed to artificially inflate or deflate stock prices in a way that leads to trader losses and profits for others.  
## Category  
strategy  
## Context  
Refers to the strategy used by operators to manipulate stock prices causing losses for long holders.  
## Source Evidence  
"whenever there was an unexplained sharp drop which was followed by instant recovery, the newspapers in those days used to call it a bucket-shop drive."  

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