infospace-bench/infospaces/lefevre-reminiscences-of-a-stock-operator/artifacts/entities/entity-title-market-drive.md

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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