Agree, they are so dirty, one of my brokers as soon as I buy the exact same amount is thrown on the ask right away, so absurd… then when they get caught for the short, the SEC comes along and says they are protecting shareholders and wipe the company out and send to grey sheets leaving shareholders with nothing and bailing out the MMs, dirty games they play.
The only thing that can give the little guys a small fighting chance is if they stick together, that’s why the AMC, GME was such an issue, the 1% that controls 50% of the market was about to lose control but again they locked people out of account so little guys couldn’t do anything. And sEc didn’t do a thing about it, instead there was backlash from media owned by big money against meme stocks etc… I have yet to see SEC actually do a thing helpful for little guys, all they do is hurt them repeatedly and turn a blind eye to the criminal activity the big money crooks do on a daily basis.