And so it goes. How fn' stupid to you have to be. It was a stupid position and it shows that he needed help on it. I'm getting sick and tired of this grey area with regards to manipulation. It's one thing when you have a $thousand in some OTC penny play and pump it. That's not manipulation..but this is.
The tell is in the option position:
This isn't a game...and I am so tired of this horse shite'. Leave it in the pennies where it belongs..no problem with that.