{"id":18312,"date":"2019-10-02T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:13:13","slug":"alleged-125m-offering-fraud-touted-highly-profitable-trading-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/alleged-125m-offering-fraud-touted-highly-profitable-trading-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged $125M Offering Fraud Touted &#8220;Highly Profitable&#8221; Trading Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/a> has secured an asset freeze against three people and entities accused of operating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2019-180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$125M offering fraud<\/a>. The regulator contends that the international trading program, run by Mediatrix Capital, Inc. and its principals Michael Stewart, Michael Young, and Bryant Sewall, touted an algorithmic trading strategy that was supposedly \u201chighly profitable,\u201d had never experienced a month when it didn&#8217;t make money, and rendered over 1600% of returns.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC contends that the reality was a very different story, with the trading strategy regularly losing money&#8211;over $18M from trading just in 2018. The Commission is accusing the defendants of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Misrepresentations involving the trading strategy\u2019s ability to make money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/alleged-125m-offering-fraud-touted-highly-profitable-trading-strategy\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Alleged $125M Offering Fraud Touted &#8220;Highly Profitable&#8221; Trading Strategy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has secured an asset freeze against three people and entities accused of operating a $125M offering fraud. The regulator contends that the international trading program, run by Mediatrix Capital, Inc. and its principals Michael Stewart, Michael Young, and Bryant Sewall, touted an algorithmic trading strategy that was supposedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3741,1],"tags":[4180],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-securities-fraud","category-uncategorized","tag-mediatrix-capital"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alleged $125M Offering Fraud Touted &quot;Highly Profitable&quot; Trading Strategy &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; October 2, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The SEC contends that Mediatrix Capital, Inc. and its principals Michael Stewart, Michael Young, and Bryant Sewall, touted a fraud algorithmic trading strategy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/alleged-125m-offering-fraud-touted-highly-profitable-trading-strategy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Alleged $125M Offering Fraud Touted &quot;Highly Profitable&quot; 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