Market Discussions

so the question about market manipulation is because the Eve market is much smaller than the RL market, and therefore much more prone to manipulation.

So lets say i short sell a contact for ship maintenance arrays in jita, currently holding around 17 million with a 1.6 million isk spread.

I short that contract with a 1 day run time, what you dont know is that I own thousands of ship maintenace arrays, and I can drive the market down to 10 million isk with no spread.

The problem is that there are only a few hundred SMAs traded per day, so its fairly easy for a holder of a contract to make their own market bubble and ride it up; this is especially dangerous for you because youre going to be letting people margin 4 to 1.

Regular brokers seize accounts and assets when they catch someone doing this, but you cant do that because it would ruin your credibility; that and someone cant report you to the FTC for fraud if they dispute your accusation.

Have you put any thought into how you might avoid this situation?