Oh yes, not only "paid bashers" but the manipulating MMs buying sub-penny OTC stocks for their own personal account. ha!
This is interesting, too bad it's not required reading prior to trading in the OTC gutter, although no doubt there will be those who think they can beat the system;
Eraker and Ready (2015) study a sample of approximately 6,800 OTC stocks between 2000 and 2008. The investors in their sample average a –24% annual return after accounting for transaction costs. Moreover, these OTC investors lost an aggregate of $180 billion over the sample period.
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