American Scientific Resources (ASFX)

[Mariner*]

Market Makers want peeps to sell them shares. They will be pulling all the tricks out of the playbook to get them.
Remember, there hasn't been any shares released from the treasury for five long years, and in that time it's been trading and the MM's have been making a market for this security.
Market makers do this stuff for a living, it's their job to make the market fluid and equitable, and oh'yes...make money doing it.

Do you think for one minute that the MM's would be wanting to purchase shares on the verge of a downturn, or an outright elimination?

Yeah right, you don't think that the MM's have a pretty good guess what exactly is going down here with this stock?
They know exactly that it is on the cusp of a major increase in PPS on the charts, that has been five years in the making.
They didn't get their rich cushy jobs being stupid.

https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ASFX/security
Security Notes
Capital Change=shs increased by 15 for 1 split. Ex-date=03-10-00. Rec. date=02-10-00. Pay. date=03-08-00.

They did a 15 to 1 forward split back in 2000 working on eight years ago. Share structure hasn't changed since.

Not if, but when they do a name and ticker change with FINRA after getting all their filings up to date for an "Expected" reverse merger, all the ducks have to be in a row. All shares sold to the individual shareholders [All Shareholders] have to be accounted for prior to FINRA doing any kind of changes to any security under their purview.
The market makers know this, they know what's coming down the pike and if there are any unresolved issues concerning share allocation {and I'm not saying that there is,} but there is a very good chance that there exists some disparity in allocation. If that is indeed the case here, then the MM's are going to be jumping through hoops to rectify the situation "Before" they are backed up to a wall. Imo, this + buying pressure, spells for some very freaked out Market Makers.
It could be why you're seeing large numbers on the bid to attract sellers, which isn't happening, because a large number of shareholders have been here for a very long time. What's a couple more months of waiting to see how things pan out.
Keeping all this in mind, I think the chart is in store for some major boomerang effect. That's a technical term for OMG!