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It likely would have made tracking the perpetrators easier if there was a paper trail in the markets.



There's enough volatility and turnonver in Twitter's stock that anyone who made a few single comma trades wouldn't ever be directly identified.

Buy some options several days in advance, drop the tweet, then sell right when volume shoots through the roof.


There are automated systems employed by exchanges that analyze trades and are undeterred by volume. If someone burned this on a couple single comma trades, goodness.




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