Your "friend" will be glad he or she got rid of that EAPH when the best bid available is in the triple zipples. It won't take the EAPH insiders long to dump their way through what's left of the double deuces. They have bales of fresh dilutive stock to unload on their next batch of victims. Only an inexperienced trader would place an order like that one you described. In a market as thin as EAPH, OF COURSE the MMs are going to rape and pillage. That's what they do anytime they're given an opportunity.