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.
After Hours: $ 0.000296 -0.000104 (-26.00%) Volume: 20m
4:06 PM EDT May 2, 2016 ______________________________________________________________
Price Size Mkt Time
$0.0003 10,000,000 OTO 16:06:13 <-T-Trade $0.0003 10,000,000 OTO 16:06:08 <-T-Trade
$0.0004 8,888 OTO 15:44:08 $0.0004 8,888 OTO 15:44:08
$0.0003 5,271,666 OTO 14:52:29 $0.0003 7,510,000 OTO 14:52:11 $0.0003 590,000 OTO 14:45:06 $0.0003 2,000,000 OTO 14:26:21 $0.0003 8,000,000 OTO 14:25:56
$0.0004 96,812 OTO 14:13:46
$0.0003 806,667 OTO 13:55:33 $0.0003 1,413,333 OTO 13:55:31 $0.0003 990,000 OTO 13:55:31 $0.0003 90,000 OTO 13:55:31
$0.0004 10,000 OTO 12:09:59
$0.0003 135,000 OTO 11:45:10
$0.0004 400,000 OTO 11:07:03 $0.0004 500,000 OTO 11:05:19 $0.0004 999,999 OTO 10:42:39 $0.0004 400,000 OTO 10:34:44 $0.0004 100,000 OTO 10:21:06
$0.0003 1,500,000 OTO 10:02:47 $0.0003 100,000 OTO 09:44:05 $0.0003 1,400,000 OTO 09:43:59 $0.0003 8,500,000 OTO 09:43:58 $0.0003 1,625,000 OTO 09:38:57 $0.0003 3,375,000 OTO 09:38:44
$0.0004 1,145,000 OTO 09:37:24 $0.0004 1,200,000 OTO 09:34:38 $0.0004 1,200,000 OTO 09:34:38 $0.0004 200,000 OTO 09:33:29 $0.0004 200,000 OTO 09:33:29 $0.0004 100,000 OTO 09:31:31 $0.0004 1,000,000 OTO 09:31:31 $0.0004 350,000 OTO 09:31:31 $0.0004 250,000 OTO 09:30:07 $0.0004 250,000 OTO 09:30:07 $0.0004 750,000 OTO 09:30:07 $0.0004 750,000 OTO 09:30:07 $0.0004 570,000 OTO 09:30:03