(AMR). These actions included placing buy or sell orders designed to artificially inflate prices, submitting bids that hindered others from making their own buy orders, placing small-volume buy orders to
continuous trading activities. Examples include sending trading orders in a manner that pushed prices upward, placing bid offers at multiple price levels in a way that obstructed and pressured other investors
obstructed and pressured other investors to buy at higher prices, and matching trades among themselves. These actions misled the public regarding the price and trading volumes of the securities, causing the