>>56872785Not naive, I'm in my mid 30's and work in the financial sector in a position that deals this sort of thing on the regular. I know more about shady underhanded deals, legal loopholes, and corruption than you probably will ever know.
There are situations that warrant what you're suggesting here. This isn't one of them. It's -EV to make this kind of move. They aren't JPMorgan manipulating the price of Gold because they make more money than they'll lose in fines and it actually comes off as a reputational positive for them that they're willing to do whatever it takes to make their shareholders more money in a ruthlessly PvP environment of commodity trading. Corruption that you're suggesting is rampant, but this is a scenario in which is just logistically makes no sense to even try fighting.
