NUGL, Inc. (NUGL)

[satelliteguy]

"are MMs really controlling the share price on a stock this small?"

No, of course not. Anyone who yells about "MMs loading up" or "MMs needing shares" or "MMs shaking it to buy cheap shares" don't have a clue of the way the market works. Market makers don't maintain inventory of thousands of little tiny stocks, and for the most part they try to profit from buying and selling (or, much more often, selling short first and then buying back) and aim to end every day with no position. They don't care whether a stock goes up or down, except in those very rare instances (maybe 1% of the time) where it goes up and they sell short to maintain liquidity, and then get nervous when it doesn't come back down right away.

Anyone who doesn't understand all that needs to have a conversation with a market maker.