Creating volatility for a low entry point to sell higher is plausible and to some degree it does play out on some of these message boards. But such a pattern is not very reliable because the typical lack of content to such posts with no supporting evidence tends to not move anything at all. One is far more likely to benefit from pumping a security up while selling that go through all the work. Lets face it most shareholders under water rarely just dump their shares, the majority of actual liquidity in the OTC comes from dilution, plain and simple. All one has to do is wait it out and the issuer will create the dip needed to enter, just figuring out when the diluting ends and where to enter becomes work. In some cases they simply call the issuer and ask whom is doing the dumping, they often collude with that entity.
Large groups have been known to do so and there are countless regulatory actions filed where this has been confirmed over and over again.
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