MMs have the ability to create "shares" out of thin air to "make a market" as they call it with having an extended time to then have to find real shares to cover those shares from different sources. This ability was really designed for low liquidity stocks where there was not always shares at hand within the market to meet demand on a moments notice. However, over time this "exception" has been abused by the MMs to try to make money within the structure of the market itself. A loophole as such. IMHO, considering how prevalent it is, eventually .gov will have to address and fix this with regulation. But at this point, it is a big issue of abuse and can cause damage to stock prices, or, in this case can be applied IMHO wrongly and do the opposite. But most often, such as with BTCS as an example of this, it causes a major negative impact over time on buyer sentiment. JMHO. GLTA.
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