The point is that the bid / ask system is phoney because of the MM system that the S E C allows. If a sell is to go thru @ 0.0009 and the quote is 'ask' @ 0.0002 .. ALL of those asks have to get filled before the ask can go up. And temporarily even for a split second the quote has to change from 0.0001/0.0002. The S E C allows the MMs to hide bids, asks, and size and only execute what THEY feel like. A free market system it definitely is not. A crooked game it definitely is.