Thanks. I'm not sure they couldn't legally get away with programming in 'encouragement' to either increase or decrease inventory based on various technical factors - maybe overall money inflows or something like that are monitored. If so, then it may be that multiple mms have similar programs which ends up creating cycles in the overall penny market. Same effect as obvious illegal collusion. Not 'evil' but still a mm-driven cycle
And there has never been a discgruntled employee turned whistleblower in all of this time. SEC and the Exchanges which have actve surveilance systems have never detected it. (they've detected insider trading 2 and 3 degrees removed from the tippee yet they can't discover THIS obvious scam?) Wikileaks has never gotten evidence of it.
But the iHubbers who perennially lose their asses on obvious scams know this
Have you ever seen a scam through from mania, to bagholding, to enforcement action? The stories, the legends, the bogeymen are always the same.
#1). You have money. Other people want it. All of it! #2). You want easy money. So does everybody else. They'll get it, too....yours! (and all of it!) #3). You tell yourself you're smart. You won't lose your money. Fact: Other people are smarter,