Exactly what happened yesterday jk21. Great observation.
I do think it's VNDM short covering of some kind... only because the behavior and sizes of the buys are so similar to yesterday.
When VNDM thinks there's enough of a lull, he goes to town with covering, slowly at the ask, in small increments, in hopes that he'll get lucky and someone will dump to him at the bid while he makes his small covering orders at the ask.
That's the way I read it.
Nobody says you have to make up your losses in the stock you lost them in to begin with.
Get out of the Yugo, get into the Ferrari.