#1-#9. Trades like those happen all the time, because in your head you are thinking about manipulation so you are already biased. As long as the market makers feel that they can execute a trade, then they do it. .0174 vs. .0173 is not that big of a difference. Perhaps someone put it an order at .0174 and the mm can match it with someone else's order. It's not manipulation.
#10-#11. There are 2 scenarios: manipulation, and someone lower their sale price because their sale order didn't get filled, and you don't get to see it on LII immediately. Try it at home, I have etrade, I did it a couple times and the thing never showed up on the LII yet my order got filled. LII is not everything. There is L3 as well, but you won't be able to get it.
the rest can be explained similarly
My advice to you, stop looking at LII and try to decipher it. Just because a bid and an ask price are at a certain price, doesn't mean the sale or buy orders have to be always at those prices.
Now if you see a shit load of sale taking place like early this morning, yet the price still went up, while some other day massive buying and the price went down, then manipulation is taking place, because the mms just trading back and forth. Or a 3m buy didn't move the price up, but 10000 shares sell brings the price down.
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