arXiv:2607.04184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market manipulation is the dubious practice of manipulating stock prices in order to make a quick profit, which truly degrades confidence on trading platforms. We implemented an unsupervised fraud-detection toolkit that begins with K-Means++ clustering to address this issue. A dataset of roughly one million financial transactions from 2012 to 2024 is used. In order to identify fraudulent trades and categorize them using market practice heuristic thresholds, the study suggests a clustering-based pipeline. The method highlights 2.02% of trades as s
Source: arXiv cs.AI — read the full report at the original publisher.