No problem. You just need to reread my post. I never said there wasn't manipulation. I said it wasn't done by Market Makers. It is done by traders. Whatever you are viewing, and the scenarios you presented, were not done by some ' evil forces Market Makers '. It was done by traders trying to game a situation either now or for in the future by frontloading.
OTC and Pinks are routed automatically through computers, no MM employee is sitting there making the trades you witnessed because that's not what they do with the thousands of low volume subpenny stocks.
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