Your "buddy" can buy all he wants. The stock will drip lower if the market says so. Nobody no firm can hold up a bear market or a bear market stock. What is your academic background, to be getting somebody to invest such large (you say) sums? Do you have the professional experience of DOC238? I have never heard you say one intelligent thing about anavex or anything else except mindless mo mo sloganeering. Not a single intelligent observation about anything, like many other unjfortunate souls on this chatboard. Are you the town crier or the town simpleton? the neighborhood biased bigmouth?
Here is a real stock tip: those giving stock tips have generally been in a stock during a fortunate run. When you have somebody giving you a stock tip, you should run for the nearest exits.