You said: " Dutchess's tactic of keeping the stock price level while selling into strength."
Wow - your "standard" of strength is interesting - a $.01 rise.
Dutchess will NOT lose $$$ on their funding decision. They play both sides and have a short position as well. They will continue to CONTROL price movement. With the outstanding shares of over 100M for this $1M or so revenue company the upside is VERRY LIMITED. The reverse split is the company's only option to correct the capital structure and the individual investor gets screwed again.