Quote from: South Park on July 11, 2017, 05:31:45 PM

The pump is the process is where a coin get its price inflated due to whales investing in it..., the dump is the reverse process when after a pump the hales withdraw their money...

Quote from: moviebuff777 on July 11, 2017, 02:54:18 PM

I think a pump typically means that an individual or group is driving the price up by buying a bunch of coins...
Then ... the individual or group ... begins to sell at these high prices which is called a dump

Quote from: SvenBomvolen on July 11, 2017, 02:41:18 PM

DUMP means the drop of the price and PUMP means it's raise.

Quote from: FZshuvo on July 11, 2017, 02:17:23 PM

Pump means price increasing & Dump means price drcreasing. You have to buy before pumping ans sell when the pumps happening.

No.

Quote from: AGD on July 11, 2017, 06:20:40 PM

So many wrong answers and such an easy way to get better info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

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"Pump and dump" (P&D) is a form of microcap stock fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price. Once the operators of the scheme "dump" sell their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money. Stocks that are the subject of pump and dump schemes are sometimes called "chop stocks".[1]

While fraudsters in the past relied on cold calls, the Internet now offers a cheaper and easier way of reaching large numbers of potential investors.[1]

Yes.

The "pump" is not the increase in price. The pump is the promoting that causes victims to buy, which causes the price to rise. The scammer buys before the pump so that they can get the maximum profit when they sell.

The "dump" is not the fall in price. The scammer dumps the shares at inflated prices to the victims that buy as a result of the pump. The fall in prices happens after the dump when there are no more buyers to support the inflated price.

A "pump group" is a scam. Here is how it works:

1. The scammer creates a "pump group" convincing each member that they are on the inside and that they will profit.
2. The scammer selects a coin and buys it doing their best to pay the lowest price possible.
3. The pump. The scammer announces the time and date when members are supposed to buy.
4. Smarter members buy early, the rest buy at or after the announced time and date.
5. The price starts rising and members and others start buying.
6. The dump. The scammer starts selling as the price rises.
7. The buyers dry up and the price falls.
8. The scammer and some members make money, but everyone else loses.

The pump group scam works because of the belief that the pump is the rise in prices and the dump is the fall in prices.

Finally, this is not all theoretical. I know a guy that does this now, and some old-timers might remember Fontas, who was (and probably still is) a master of pump-and-dump.