“…(cited by Mayhew, 2001). There is abundant literature on this topic which shows that profitable manipulation is possible, but only under some restrictive conditions (Kyle, 1984;Kumar andSeppi, 1992, Barnhart, Kahl andBarnhart, 1996;Pirrong, 2001). However, market depth is such today that this problem is less acute, except perhaps in the case of the least liquid markets or the most recent and sophisticated contracts.…”