What "artificial activity" flags mean
Why some DSE stocks carry a concentration band, what the flag is (and isn’t), and how to use it.
The pattern
DSE has a well-documented history of stocks whose price action is driven by a small number of coordinated participants rather than broad organic demand — thin free float, volume spikes with no corresponding news, price moves detached from sector or index behavior.
We band every actively-traded stock from organic through elevated, strong, to extreme based on how strongly its recent trading shows that pattern. See the full screen at /integrity.
What it is not
A high band is a descriptive pattern flag, not an accusation. It becomes a regulator-cited flag (marked ⚑ on the screen) only when it is backed by a real BSEC/DSE public disclosure — those are two different things, and we keep them visually distinct.
A concentrated stock is not automatically a bad investment, and an organic-banded stock is not automatically a good one — read this axis alongside fundamentals and technicals, not as a standalone verdict.