The concept of wash trading here would be i buy, i'm a bad actor, and create fake trades between accounts. Painting the tape means buying shares in a company from each other at increasingly higher prices to create excitement that it's going up. It's both wash trating and painting the tape. A lot of times when they are actly doing wash trating, the price usually stayed obut the samethey're just tryng to increase the volume. They're not trying to pust the price up or puss it down.