Gold market manipulation, called also gold price manipulation, can be defined broadly as a purposeful effort to control gold prices. This sort of manipulation exists in financial markets as traders try to influence the markets (in this case, the gold market). It may be responsible for some short-term aberrations in asset prices, including the price of gold. However, there is another, more specific definition. According to the Security and Exchange Commission, manipulation is intentional conduct designed to deceive investors by controlling or artificially affecting the market for a security… [this includes] rigging quotes, prices or trades to create a false or deceptive picture of the demand for a security. A popular belief within the gold investing community is that gold prices are manipulated, generally downwards, in what is described as price suppression.