DAISY CHAIN
A group of investors practicing a fictitious trading or what we call wash selling to inflate the price of a security so they can sell it to be a profit. Stocks with low liquidity are the one who is more susceptible in daisy chains because price manipulation is very difficult in stocks that has a heavy volumes. Investors doing the daisy chains are usually caught having a stock that continues to depreciate long after the chain sells out.
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