====== Secret Trade Scam ======

The secret trade scam is a [[covid-19_pandemic:corruption|bribery scheme]] where the participant is tricked into believing they are being given inside information to make profitable market trades.




===== Concepts =====

==== Markets ====

While this can be done over a stock exchange, it can also be done elsewhere such as cryptocurrencies and prediction markets.

This gives the person offering the scam some degree of plausible deniability.

==== Low Liquidity assets ====

Not all tradable assets are the same. Liquidity((Understanding Liquidity and How to Measure It [[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquidity.asp|Investopedia]])) is a measure of how much "room" exists to buy or sell an asset without massively moving the price.


For example, if there are tons of people with large buy & sell offers for an asset without much of a difference, that would mean there is a great deal of liquidity.


In this case, the ideal assets are those that have hardly any buy or sell offers on the books all with very wide margins. 


===== Methodology =====


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