i'm not sure jerry. BSB and yourself are more knowledgeable people about this sort of thing.
"If you are correct about the financing pattern, it seems that you believe that the folks buying Linda's deals have some ability to manipulate the price UP, and with elevated volume."
Normally i'd say this would be tricky to do but in this specific situation with a lot of dim retail waiting for 'news of data lock has leaked!' signal all it would take is a little push to set the retail ball rolling. I'm wondering if they could have been slowly pushing the price down over the last month of so, got a deal, then sparked the fire, then dumped with a healthy profit.