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 48,810 OTO 12:59:48 $0.0004 451,190 OTO 12:59:48
$0.0005 481,411 OTO 12:49:47 $0.0005 218,589 OTO 12:49:47
$0.0005 500 OTO 12:40:15 $0.0005 911 OTO 12:38:33 $0.0004 2,186,140 OTO 12:31:36 $0.0004 313,860 OTO 12:31:28 $0.0004 1,552,007 OTO 12:21:49 $0.0004 500,000 OTO 12:21:39 $0.0004 1,500,000 OTO 12:21:34 $0.0004 5,600 OTO 12:21:25 $0.0004 1,000,000 OTO 12:21:12 $0.0004 1,100,000 OTO 12:20:57 $0.0004 10,000 OTO 12:20:52 $0.0004 1,000,000 OTO 12:20:50 $0.0004 10,000 OTO 12:20:45 $0.0004 228,810 OTO 12:20:44 $0.0004 44 OTO 12:20:10 $0.0004 1,831,600 OTO 12:19:36 $0.0004 5,967,472 OTO 12:19:27 $0.0004 3,500,000 OTO 12:19:19 $0.0004 499,999 OTO 12:19:19 $0.0004 470,895 OTO 12:19:19 $0.0004 999,999 OTO 12:19:19 $0.0004 1,729,991 OTO 12:19:18 $0.0003 300,000 OTO 11:49:03 $0.0003 439,374 OTO 11:07:01 $0.0003 500,000 OTO 11:06:49 $0.0004 500,000 OTO 11:06:33