Penny traders believe that Market Makers (MM) will "signal" moves in advance buy using small amounts of buys or sells as "signals".
The "signals" are such a small amount of shares (worth no more than 5 or 10 dollars) that no trader would have paid a commission that costs more than the amount of shares bought.
The "signals" are from one MM to another.
100 - I need shares. 200 - I need shares badly, but do not take the stock down. 300 - Take the price down so I can load shares 400 - Keep trading it sideways. 500 - Gap the stock. This gap can be either up or down, depending on the direction of the 500 signal. 911 - Pending News
Understanding the Form T-Trade:
If a market maker wants to accumulate a large amount of a stock in one trading day, that market maker may actually not report any of the trades that occurred until the trading day has ended so as not to alert the market to the collection.
$0.0004 300,000 OTO 14:06:28 $0.0004 200,000 OTO 13:51:33
$0.0003 4,493,607 OTO 13:45:12 $0.0003 7,000,000 OTO 13:44:55 $0.0003 3,000,000 OTO 13:44:44 $0.0003 5,000,000 OTO 13:44:44 $0.0003 5,000,000 OTO 13:44:44 $0.0003 5,000,000 OTO 13:41:50 $0.0003 1,379,494 OTO 13:39:33
$0.0003 853,800 OTO 13:39:33 $0.0003 7,766,706 OTO 13:39:33 $0.0003 88,888 OTO 12:50:07 $0.0002 8,203,001 OTO 12:27:58 $0.0002 9,999,999 OTO 12:27:38 $0.0002 20,000,000 OTO 12:27:13 $0.0003 1,000,000 OTO 10:15:12 $0.0003 500,000 OTO 10:15:10 $0.0003 500,000 OTO 10:14:58