I do research, and perhaps this number one google explains it.
Exerpt: (1) a large number of wash trades and matched orders in March 2002 by MarketXT, an Electronic Communications Network (âECNâ), NASD member, and registered broker-dealer, which were reported through Nasdaq, and (2) MarketXTâs failure to maintain adequate net capital, and its inability to meet its financial obligations to Nasdaq. These circumstances, which indicated violations by MarketXT of the anti-fraud and net-capital provisions of the securities laws, were not adequately addressed by Nasdaq, as overseen by its parent, NASD.
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-51163.htm
Or this:
However, on cross-examination, Amanatâs expert could identify only one other instance of such trading, involving Swift Trade Securities USA, Inc. Swift Trade was the subject of an NASD enforcement action for engaging in a deceptive trading scheme from April 2002 to May 2002 to earn rebates, using a computer software program to generate wash trades in QQQs. That action settled in 2002, with NASD imposing censures, fines, and disgorgement against Swift Trade and its president. See NASD Notices to Members (Disciplinary Actions Nov. 2002), 2002 WL 31548129.
www.sec.gov/litigation/opinions/2006/34-54708.pdf
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