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Did you wash those numbers well before publishing them? Seriously: what safeguards does FTX have against wash trading?

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1) the matching engine won't print self-trades, if you try it'll just cancel the orders 2) every single user has positive net fees so they'd have to be paying fees to do it 3) monitoring of suspicious account activity

12:14 PM · Jan 4, 2021Twitter Web App

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Thanks. Main main worry remains that a group of traders can wash trade price in any direction especially with careful use of HFT bots. As no external audits are in place, we still have to rely on self monitoring and self reporting. Do you welcome regulation or do you reject it?

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We're super happy to work with regulators as they develop frameworks that are sophisticated enough to account for FTX's product! This is a slow process, though: right now even most regulatory sandboxes are just made for spot exchanges.

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