It’s also MMs closing their naked short positions for the day, they usually try to short it all day long in hopes of shaking people out but as most smart people are holding for the proper valuation, they don’t find many shares and are forced to cover.
This means folks with Big Bucks do not care about these small PPS values, this is a pittance to them but big money to a lot of the current longs here. This bodes well as they plan on making tons of money even buying in at these levels, as they normally buy stocks in the Dollar land values of PPS in their other investments. This means they know something great is coming here. GO IPIX, GO LEO.
...because they miscalculate that there will be a sell-off/profit taking at the close and "Hope" for better entry...
...but what they don't know is that News can be out any morning...highly charged news
On the side lines others see the "bargain" into the close...buy into close and the Newbies realize the folly of waiting and buy in...bidding up the stock at the end.