October 8, 2015

New York-based proprietary trading firm, Briargate Trading LLP, and its co-founder, Eric Oscher, will pay more than $1 million to settle charges by the SEC of “spoofing.”  An SEC investigation found that Briargate and Oscher orchestrated a scheme in which they placed sham orders (“spoofs”), to create the appearance of interest in stocks and manipulate their prices, and then placed bona fide orders on the opposite side of the market to take advantage of the artificially inflated or depressed prices.  Immediately after the bona fide orders were executed, the spoof orders were cancelled.  Through this conduct, perpetrated between October 2011 and September 2012, Oscher and Briargate reaped approximately $525,000 in profits.  SEC

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