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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Small Size, post: 2403620, member: 77924&quot;]One can buy derivatives nominally based on gold - futures, options, etc. - as well as derivatives based on the derivatives. In such a way, a person who has no intention of owning gold can use the multiplier effect to disproportionally affect the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Market manipulations are as old as markers themselves. Plato once tried to corner the olive oil market in Athens by putting a small down payment on every commercial olive press in the city. The Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market in the 1970&#039;s by buying futures that together totaled more than the actual silver available on the market, a situation they&#039;d helped along by also buying lots of physical silver. It worked, for a while. Then the government changed the rules and the Hunts had to sell most of their futures contracts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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