Capstone Green Energy Corp (fka CGRNQ)

[Wild-bill]

as if the MMs didn't want it to close at .90 or above

I think Capt's stuff will give a clue. If MMs are trying to stifle a rally, the short sales ought to spike up, percentage wise.
Depending on which exchange(s), it might not show until tomorrow. Of course, with the take down and rebound we saw today, and a couple other higher-volume minutes with "big" (relatively) price moves, shorts might come higher from those actions.

OTOH, note the nice improvement from 10:30 nasty b:s, the brief near-neutral at 14:45 and then the improvement again into the (adjusted by me) 16:00 close. They way I'm interpreting this is that the MMs ceased pecking the bid with conviction to move the price lower - either capitulation to the trend or they didn't really care (they had accomplished their goals earlier?) - and allowed the market to operate, more or less.

The thing to remember is that they make $ regardless of direction as long as their portfolio is not severely out of a "market neutral" position too far and there is some volume. I believe the exceptions occur when a "large important customer" says do X for me, because the MM want to keep their business and/or when the MMs portofolio is too far from market-neutral.

Regarding this latter situation, I also believe they will cause this when they see the opportunity to garner more profits and it looks "safe".

MHO,
Bill

				Un-	Run'g	Raw 
 	Time	Buy	Sell	known	Total	b:s 
 	10:30	95026	14694	1200	110920	6.47:1 
 	10:45	129862	44148	8060	182070	2.94:1 
 	11:00	131862	119196	8060	259118	1.11:1 
 	11:15	133387	130196	8260	271843	1.02:1 
 	11:30	145587	140166	8260	294013	1.04:1 
 	11:45	153925	144766	8260	306951	1.06:1 
 	12:00	161425	148466	8260	318151	1.09:1 
 	12:15	163525	159066	8360	330951	1.03:1 
 	12:30	265367	190262	8360	463989	1.39:1 
 	12:45	280867	191462	8360	480689	1.47:1 
 	13:00	329467	206162	8460	544089	1.60:1 
 	13:15	335567	224862	8460	568889	1.49:1 
 	13:30	340067	236511	8460	585038	1.44:1 
 	13:45	343167	250662	8560	602389	1.37:1 
 	14:00	347467	279201	8560	635228	1.24:1 
 	14:15	350017	285451	8560	644028	1.23:1 
 	14:30	353067	292903	8560	654530	1.21:1 
 	14:45	356467	394403	8560	759430	1:1.11 
 	15:00	362467	307585	10102	680154	1.18:1 
 	15:15	363369	310053	11618	685040	1.17:1 
 	15:30	385002	315561	13918	714481	1.22:1 
 	15:45	404402	315661	14618	734681	1.28:1 
 	16:00	499193	350679	15284	865156	1.42:1