Your experience doesn't disprove the theory. It's irrelevant to the theory unless the theory is that ALL bashers are being paid by evil mms.
The answer really must come from someone who actually KNOWS what mms that engage in making markets in penny stocks do. Are people behind the computers and how much leeway are they given?
As I already said I have placed orders to buy on a slow trading stock at the ask and they were immediately filled by someone else, with the ask then going up(this is my recollection, anyway). My broker told me that individuals working at the brokerage houses have first dibs on any order such as mine. That to me is an open door for corruption. As is - as I've also already said - the access the mms have to supply/demand volume and pricing that retail does not have.
Re IHUB posting if there is an open door for corruption with mms, then why not take advantage of the largest forum on the internet that influences such pricing?
Again, sleazy CEO's can't be blamed for the seemingly inexplicable cycles we see in the penny stock markets where the weak get squeezed out. The most logical explanation when nothing else seems to account for these moves to me is collusion.
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