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Maybe it's programmed to accumulate at a certain rate over time but to avoid being accused of manipulation be random enough to not make that much sense?While I don’t want to imply there is no manipulation going on (oh, there absolutely is!), how does it make sense manipulation-wise if those single digit transactions are not moving the share price?
I would have expected a one unit transaction to move the share price from let’s say 0.375 to 0.37 or lower, possibly triggering stop losses which in turn will make it easier to drive the sp even lower with another single digit transaction. So what sense does it make to program the bots to machine-gun-fire-bid for an unchanging share price instead of incrementally lowering it? (Or boosting it - obviously this would work in both directions.)
Same thing here - the one unit transaction did not move the share price one bit.
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I just can’t get my head around this. Or am I missing something?
The volume stacking is what gets me. That's just blatant control. Stability when they want it and volatility when they choose it.
Though with the 3 decimal advantage they can pretty much do as they please and the market operator/regulator appears to think it's fine.
Not to mention when you put an order in and it pre-empts it by upping the price a cent.
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