I have no doubt that there is some manipulation that occurs from time to time. However, to say that MMs are always pushing the price one way or the other for their own financial benefit is simply not true.
Of course they make money on every transaction. That's their fee for the service they provide. But they receive that fee whether the stock goes up or down. It doesn't really make any difference at all to them.
Finally, I refuse to believe that a stock trading a few thousand dollars a day in volume would be of any interest at all to a stock manipulator. The liquidity is just not there.
fred, if you see sharply rising prices in a stock your first reaction is to jump in to buy the stock (understandable). Why couldn't it be the MM setting the price higher?
How does a pps rise or descend sharply on 100 share blocks? how are the market forces determining that scenario?
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