Trading between accounts to create volume and walk the stock price up.
Wouldn't it be something if it comes out that someone was trading this stock by shorting it in one account and buying it from another account in order to create volume and walk the stock price up.
They would risk nothing by doing this. If the stock goes up, their stock buy increases in value. If the stock goes down their shorts increase in value. They accomplish creating volume and they walk their bids up over time to create both volume and an appearance of stock value increasing.
They also can make it look like "air shares" are being traded by producing this volume.
Once the volume and interest is flowing they start selling their shares they purchased and increasing their short position.
Once they sell their shares and take a nice short position, they let the company go to pot so that the SEC stops trading on the stock and they don't have to ever cover their shorts.
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