> Question about legalities regarded the stock market?

Question about legalities regarded the stock market?

Posted at: 2014-12-05 
1-1,000 account - Legally this can be done BUT you can not do it. Most firms require you to have $500 to open each account and no one firm would permit you to open 1,000 accounts. Also no firm would let you invest $1 especially into a penny stock (clearing cost would be prohibited).

$1,000 dollar investment(s) would not increase the value of a publically traded stock let alone a penny stock

Don't forget the commissions of at least $5 per trade on the buy side and another $5 on the sell side

2-Manipulate a stock -If no one invest in a company so what, the company already received it's money on the public offering. Do you hav e a ton of money and how much is a ton of money

3- can company hold 10,000 shares of its own stock - Yes many companies do but unless there are trades this is already public knowledge and will have no efect on either the company or the market.

All your scenarios are indications that you know nothng about the markets, nor any security rules and regulations.

Nice try sonny, now take your nap

1) That is a pump and dump scam which can only work if you have enough money to really move the needle, and your likely to get in trouble with the SEC.

2) You can, but your likely to get sued by your shareholders.

3) Doing it from 10,000 accounts would have no more effect then buying back all those shares in a single account. Stock prices are driven by supply and demand, the total number of owners is irrelevant. Buying back shares does not really raise the stock prices because it takes cash to buy them back which makes your company less attractive and offsets any effect of reducing the outside ownership.

Can you rob a bank?

1. Could one potentially have 1000 different accounts investing 1 $ from one account in one penny stock which would then raise the worth of the stock and then sale? So have 1000 accounts investing one dollar from each account in one account to raise the worth of the stock and then sell that stock for lots more money?

2. Can one have a company and destroy the company slightly meaning make it so people do not invest or pull out and then funnel in a ton of money and restore the company to make huge earnings?

3. Can a company hold 10,000 stocks from different accounts investing in its own company to make it look like people are investing so more people will invest?