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Wash Trading

Also called: wash trades, matched orders, self-trading

Wash trading is buying and selling the same asset with yourself to manufacture the appearance of volume. It's prohibited in regulated markets and endemic in unregulated ones: multiple studies have concluded that a large majority of reported volume on some crypto exchanges was fabricated this way, which makes reported liquidity figures for those venues close to meaningless.

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