I was wondering the same thing. Upon giving it some thought today, I have a speculative answer that seems to make sense. I have been saying all along that for the most part the heavy manipulation is not from the small fry retail shorts who tag along for the ride to make a few pennies here and there. The meaningful manipulation is coming from big players, biopharma, who are behind the MMs and and use AF hit pieces as a front, a rationale for those who believe his lies, and most of all as a bugle call for the attack to begin. In the face of the good news, the manipulation is costing the manipulators some real money. But it does effectively cap the rise in the SP that would otherwise happen. This is a cost probably on the order of some tens of millions to perhaps even a hundred million dollars that the BP who have many BILLIONS to lose in their cancers treatments for chemo and radiation that are barely helping in GBM and other cancers and cause all sorts of horrible side effects. A second likely motive is even if they do not make DCVAX disappear - it is too late for that after the PIII, TLD and JAMA Article, Sawston snd Flaskworks, they still will try to cap the SP in the hopes of saving tens of BILLIONS in the eventual costs of acquiring NWBO for themselves.
So, IMO, the costs of the manipulation are not a profit center, as most people assume shorting would be, but and expense the BPs are willing to expense in order to accomplish their own future revenues. It's like the delivery man who writes off tens of parking tickets (an illegal activity) as a necessary cost of doing business.
so too here, if we find the illegal spoofing activity continuing (perhaps in a less egregious fashion) despite the law suit and all our eyes fixed clearly on the manipulation, the costs the court may impose, even if large, may be seen by the BPs as a necessary cost of doing business. It is not yet clear to me how the end game here works. With any luck, the manipulation will eventually end if 1) the costs do become to large to be worthwhile, 2) the further egregious activity finally gets a response from the SEC and the DOJ and becomes criminal in nature with actual jail time for the offenders.
I would further add, that from my quick reading of the lawsuit, it only seems to address spoofing. It never so far as I can tell addresses naked shorting. Will they address this further down the road, or will this now become (for the while) the preferred method of manipulation down as the NWBO story continues to unfold. So far, it has not been alleged in court (despite statements by LP and LG out of court) and it is not crystal clear if in fact this happens in huge volume.
Finally as some have suggested, I among them< perhaps other MMs not named in the case are stepping in, so their action will not seem as a direct affront to the court if the named defendants continue with this activity.
