They want to keep it under .50 for as long as they can.
If I was a big money investor ~100K on trades, I would pay Lieyers to push a stock price down.
I would look for stocks that are undervalued and wait for the market to realize this. I would wait for the stock to start moving up in price. At this point I would pay a "Lieyer" to "submit an investigation" on a company (I suggest you guys research the history of postings on these Lieyers,I see a patern, do you?)
Now, when the stock price goes down to where I want it to go, I'll submit my order.
Wait...my order is huge, so I need to get another Lieyer, hopefully on the same team (same posting or similar) so that I can spook enough investors to sell their stock so that my buy order will fill (notice the 54K, 8K 10K orders coming in at .50 and below)
If I want more stock or if I want my friends to get in on the action, I might just pay for another posting.
Then, I'll let the price do what it was going to do...go up.
My profit:
I paid 5K for each posting = 10K
I purchased 250K of stock at low price, stock goes back up to original price before postings and continues on up. It shoots up 20% and continues from there. So I can predict that I will make at least 20% profit here on the low end.
500K invested in stock - 10K for postings x .20% increase on price = I made $90,000
Not bad for a weeks work.
(I'm no big investor here and I can figure it out...can you?)