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Excessive Trading

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Churn
To make both buy and sell orders through different brokers, usually in large quantities, to create the impression of increased interest in a security and thereby raise its price. An investor churns if he/she has a long position on the security and wishes to sell it at an artificially high price. Churning is a form of manipulation, and is illegal under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. See also: Fix.

excessive trading
The act of churning.


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It is therefore an advantage to wait for a good "setup" before acting in order to avoid being whipsawed in and out of the stock (and to avoid excessive trading commissions).
and are therefore more vulnerable due to excessive trading.
Probe of Putnam finds disregard BOSTON - Executives at Putnam Investments did not regard improper trading by several portfolio managers as serious misconduct and were slow to stop excessive trading by a handful of outside investors, according to an internal investigation of Putnam's trading practices.
 
 
 
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