Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[vyper4]

I would not say it is good for Liquidmetal, since the dumps hurt the confidence of the average investor.

As far as your read of it, yes that is one form of manipulation that can occur.

The other would go something like this, remember this stock has a low volume compared to the float.

An Investor accumulates a large volume of stock, they see the stock is up, and know that there will be investors looking to protect their gains. They start dumping some of their stock under the bid to drive the price down, this causes a panic sell off of those trying to protect their gains. Once they have driven the price down they start buying back, which ultimately causes the drop to level off. Since they can respond quicker than the market they are able to buy back for less than they sold for.

All of the above is IMHO