Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

[XenaLives]

In light of the pump and dump in the entire market during COVID, I would say that this statement is nonsense:

Manipulation with algo trading can generally only be done on a relatively transitory basis in one direction. A percentage of the attempted churn trades (collusive parties trading back and forth to each other) get intercepted by others. The interest on the short positions is another factor.

The same shares can be traded over and over via HFT, so divide that interest by how many small gains can be made in a month, or even a year.