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Wash
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Wash
Gains equal losses.

Wash
A situation in which the profit on one activity or investment equals the loss on another. When an investment is a wash, it is said to break even.


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As a part of routine surveillance and monitoring activities, two warning letters were also issued to non-compliant members of the stock exchange for blank sales in addition to a warning letter issued to an individual investor for execution of wash trades.
6 -- Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in the seven months of 2010, initiated legal proceedings in seven different cases for violations of securities laws with special reference to insider trading, short/blank selling, wash trades, erroneous trades and broker misconduct.
And an internal Duke investigation--the federal one is still pending-- had dug up only a handful of so-called wash trades, wherein a trader sells energy, then quickly buys it back at the same price to inflate sales, demand and prices.
 
 
 
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