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.
$0.0002 100,000 OTO 13:01:33 $0.0001 20,000,000 OTO 12:54:47 $0.0001 40,000 OTO 12:01:23 $0.0001 100,000 OTO 10:24:31 $0.0001 500,000 OTO 10:14:51 $0.0001 200,000 OTO 10:05:41 $0.0002 500,000 OTO 09:30:15 $0.0002 500,000 OTO 09:30:11 $0.0002 600,000 OTO 09:30:04
because they have to Cover their "Short Positions" !
* They lose money as the stock climbs !
* Your Buying, Forces them to Buy,
and their Buying, causes the stock to Climb Higher !
The possibility of a "Short Squeeze"
Short Squeeze - What it is:
A short squeeze occurs when the stock's price doesn't decline as anticipated.
A short squeeze is a situation in which a stock's price increase triggers a rush of buying activity among short sellers.
Short sellers must buy stock to close out their short positions and cut their losses, which results in a further increase in stock prices, which compel still more short sellers to cover their positions.
The possibility of a "short squeeze" is one reason some analysts look at a high amount of short interest as a Bullish Indicator.
Short Interest is the fuel, performance is the fuse, says ShortSqueeze.com