👉 Price fixing is a practice where one or more parties in an exchange (e.g. market maker, trader) agree to fix the prices of their securities at a certain point in time and for a specific period of time, thereby creating artificial scarcity or excess supply, which can be used to manipulate the price of other securities traded on that market. Price fixing often occurs when there is a significant imbalance between the supply and demand for a particular asset or security. For example, if there is a surplus of
