and one minor fact .. most who interact with *brokers* will be told to never do a *market* order .. rather set a limit order
what has never made sense to me ~ is to watch what we *know* are legit trades (because we know who is buying) .. and we see a partial fill .. done at the ask .. with other trades also done at the ask and then *nite* *lowers* the ask .. fills a fraction of bids than those done minutes before at the *higher ask* and then viola ~ yet again nite will lower the ask .. and the pattern repeats
so of course *retail* is supposed to believe someone was so desperate to *ahem* sell .. riiiight
that they will lower the ask a tick or so and yet the volume *done* at the *new* ask is so P squared (paltry and pathetic) it defies logic and common sense (at least mine anyway)
i don't buy it .. imo we have a few levels of manipulation ongoing on exph ~
and based on what so many who actually have access to rt l2 *saw* .. it was very clear what those 2 5k trades were all about friday
0.0053 5000 OTO 14:24:27
0.0055 5000 OTO 14:17:51
now from a purely selfish pov .. as one who knows a *few* who were sitting *patiently* at .005 for exph shares .. the morons at nite can play this game till jd issues the news *we* are expecting
i just know .. that every time the *game* is played a few more shares get pocketed by those who don't manipulate the system on a daily basis