paint the tape

paint the tape
   American
   fraudulently to record deals at fictitious prices
   The reference is to the ticker tape by which market information was diffused:
    Some of the amazing prices you read of in auctions are created by the owner selling to himself — what is called 'painting the tape' on Wall Street. (Train, 1983)

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