Stock market manipulation

Public confidence in the fairness of stock markets increases their efficiency and liquidity. Manipulating stock market destroys its coherence and decreases public confidence about the authenticity of the market. Manipulation of market leads to false and nominal prices and creates misleading appearance of market activity trend.To support the capital market investors, legal systems principally banned manipulation of stock market and have set penalty.Elements of market manipulation crime and prescribed penalties are different in different legal systems with the approval of stock market law in 2005 and according to Article 46 of this law, manipulation of stock market was considered a crime and its punishment was determined.