They weren't wash trades believe me. The person I know doing the buying...and I know this person as well as I could know anyone haha, purposely was putting in buys even above what the ask was, and was still getting filled at prices 20% below the ask.
Plus, I know someone who has L3 and they verified what was really there. 100% I saw exactly what was happening. And once he ran out of shares to short, the price moved up fast.
Believe me I hate when people cry 'short' with otc stocks as much as anyone. 99% of the time it doesn't happen.
In this case.....it did.
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