He would have continued to pump it otherwise. Notice no more mention of it after the fact ? We are all guilty of pumping our own position. We all do it... shakes is just the king of it.
there wasn't any dumping really into the close if you look at the trades it was a walk down. Somebody maybe dumped in the .002 - .0023 range from what I saw, maybe dropping the price was the mm's way of seeing if anyone was willing to still sell lower.