RE: RE: RE: Wondering Today's trading made me wonder some more.
At about 1 or 2 minuites prior to the end of trading, a single block of 10,000 shares was entered for sale at 1.80. That is called a blocking strategy - it had the effect of preventing the share price from taking a sudden jump in the last few seconds, and effectively capped todays advance.........causing the ending bid/ask to sit at 1.77 to 1.79.
Whoever put that 10,000 block on at 1.80, had no intention of selling 10,000 shares..............if he/she had wanted to do that, they would have done so much earlier in the day. In my view, the intention of that transaction was to limit the price appreciation - that is an act of price manipulation, and is done when someone doesn't want the share price to advance higher! There are very few reasons to do that - and they are generally all good for existing shareholders.
I am now wondering again, what is going on behind the scenes..............