If the front-running allegation is true, I think you are missing the bigger picture.
The question is; the degree to which you might be impacted individually as a small investor versus all of us as a community of investors as a whole (basically retirement money).
Think about an S&P 500 index fund or etf that has a position in a company that is being added to the S&P 500! A huge number of shares are transacted!
Think about a pension fund that decided to buy or sell stock or Mutual Funds, etc. Then multiply that time who knows how many trades.
Those temporary increases in price are not permanent either! There and gone in a flash!
One commentator called it skimming off of stock trades.
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