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Holding the Market |
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Holding the market The illegal practice of maintaining and/or placing a sufficient number of buy orders to create price support for a security or commodity in an amount to of stabilize a downward trend.
Holding the Market A normally illegal practice in which a broker places or maintains buy orders for a security whose price is rapidly falling in order to artificially inflate demand and create a price floor. The main exception to its illegality is a situation in which the SEC gives an underwriter permission to attempt to hold the market for a new issue. Even in situations where it is legal, holding the market is a high-risk practice as the broker must normally buy large numbers of shares in order to curb falling demand, and, if he/she fails to create a price floor, he/she stands to lose a great deal of money. See also: Depth. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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