you need one or two guys (or more helps) with dedicated SPAL countries to 'market spy' the server multiple times each day.
the more guys and the more timezones represented the easier this becomes.

from what i continue to hear, some of you pick up 45 and below EVERY set from someone dropping a serious load of it. so this seems fairly organized and once you get someone on a market spy with oil up for those prices, just spy their allies and start to poke and prod and see what comes up

I agree with you completely about the benefits of SO's, qzjul. But there are ways to overcome the market and cheat. H2o pointed out how these methods can work in an Express thread a few days ago.

It may seem like more work for the mods but I think you will find that if you ask them, they would like to have another tool in their repertoire. I have read threads by Warster and chatted with galleri that say as much.

So I still argue that the mods should be able to see market data about who sold and bought what.

I did check, they do. I'm not making mod market tools any time soon, that's a lot of work that would be better spent doing other upgrades first...