I've never heard of MMs doing that, but it's a common tactic of anyone trying to run up the price of a thinly traded stock. You can't even do a trade between 2 accounts you own without raising problems. I've never heard of it being used to run down a stock, only up.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. EDMUND BURKE (and others)
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