RE:S.PKorupsion, I too am mystified at about what you describe below but I do have a theory. The deal for the drone company is specified as a dollar amount but paid for with shares of DM. The value of the shares is a moving target but the average price for a period before closing is used. So the lower the DM share price the more shares the owners of the Drone Company get. Now if the owners of the Drone Company have strong connections within the brokerage community and if they had an incentive for new significant business that they could offer regarding a different deal down the road then they could quietly ask the brokerage to depress the price until after the drone deal is done. There is no money to be made depressing the price but the "good friends network" will make sure they all make lots of money down the road. This is all hypothetical and I'm not suggesting it actually is happening but it does illustrate how and why it could happen.
korupsion wrote:
An example of why we cant get the SP to go up. Yesterday I bought 25000 shares twice. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon. I was watching the price and the bid was .185 and the ask was .19. The price had been stagnated with no sales for quite a few minutes in both instances when i decided to just pay the ask. Both times with in seconds of me raising the price to .19 some one sold shares for .185. I didnt look but I wouldnt be suprised if a house sold shares to themselves. Thats how easy it is to keep the price from running up. I know a main goal in the stock market world is to separate retail investors from their money. What i dont understand is how the people keeping this down are making money do ing this. Couldnt they make more if they just bought shares let it run.