Pump & Dump

Ninety-five percent of the float sat in one room. The chart did the rest.

A pseudonymous investigator points at a chart that climbed 537 percent on no news and asks who was holding the float. The answer, on-chain, is almost everyone in the room.

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The IPO opened at six dollars. The phone said it was going to forty.

A federal lawsuit alleges social media operators ran coordinated pump-and-dumps through tiny Nasdaq IPOs, several lead-underwritten by Fort Washington's Bancroft Capital. The filing asks the question every retail investor should: hapless victim, or greedy enabler.

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The Massachusetts default judgment crossed the border on a Monday in May.

Amar Bahadoorsingh did not appear in Boston in 2023. He did not appear in Toronto in 2026 either. The ban arrived anyway, and the machine he allegedly fed has three other B.C. names attached to it this spring.

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The rally got narrower. Goldman called it mania. The pitch in your inbox called it opportunity.

The S&P 500 just posted its strongest earnings quarter in five years while oil burned through $126 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz stayed shut. Goldman analysts called the rally "mania." That word is now traveling through inboxes attached to pitches that have nothing to do with Apple or Caterpillar.

Pump & Dump

The short squeeze that wasn't: how a merger built the machine that stranded sixty-five thousand shareholders

The SEC says two CEOs sold a short-squeeze story to drive a stock high enough to raise $137.5 million, then spun the oil and gas assets into a private company nobody could sell. The trading halt came on a Friday in December.

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The searches came at dawn, and the small investor never saw them coming

Mark Tell · Apr 29
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