Painting the Tape Refers to

Painting the tape refers to

A) the practice of buying large amounts of a security to drive its price up artificially.
B) the illegal activity of a group of investors who buy and sell a security among themselves to create an artificially high volume of trading in hopes of luring investors to buy the security.
C) the prohibited practice of excessively trading on a client's account that is used by some broker-dealers and/or their agents to generate more commissions for themselves.
D) the unethical practice of investment advisers who issue "buy" recommendations for stocks that they own themselves without disclosing the fact.