Nah, there are. Institutions have a bit of every stock. BMAK, ASCM and CDEL were on the vanguard of the L2 (they just changed).
That being said, they can afford to lose a couple dozen thousand. The average penny stock trader can't. They probably made hundreds of thousands just skimming bid/asks it back when it was .75, so they still net a gain.
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