Translation guide
The act of artificially affecting the price or trading volume of a financial instrument to create a false or misleading appearance of market activity.
Market manipulation is prohibited by law.
A more formal or technical term, often used in legal and regulatory contexts. '相場' refers to market prices.
An investigation was conducted on suspicion of market manipulation.
Literally 'price manipulation'. Focuses on the price aspect, often used when the manipulation directly targets asset prices.
The company was indicted for price manipulation.
Specifically referring to manipulation in the stock market.
To describe specific types of market manipulation, such as wash trading or spoofing.
Refers to 'wash trading' or 'fictitious trading', where a trader buys and sells the same financial instruments to create misleading activity.
Wash trading is a type of market manipulation.
Refers to 'spoofing' or placing orders with the intent to cancel them before execution, creating a false impression of demand or supply.
Literally 'spreading rumors'. Refers to manipulation by disseminating false information to affect prices.
Both mean market manipulation, but 市場操作 is more common in everyday financial news, while 相場操縦 is often used in legal texts and regulations. 市場操作 is a broader term, whereas 相場操縦 specifically implies manipulation of market prices (相場).
Avoid directly translating 'market manipulation' as マーケットマニピュレーション. While understood, it sounds like a loanword and is not natural Japanese. Use the terms provided.
The method of stock price manipulation was revealed.
Spoofing constitutes a violation of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
Market manipulation through spreading rumors became an issue.