I would think that would be an interesting prisoner's dilemma gambit. Get other traders to follow a bad (or better yet: good but sub-optimal) strategy that has a side effect of making one's own strategy better. Of course if every trading trader follow this strategy and expects others to be engaging in it as well, what useful information or strategy will they pursue?
One part that's missing here is that a bunch of people following a suboptimal strategy may have the mass to overwhelm those following an optimal strategy (but who don't have enough capital to move prices in their direction)
