Stops
You're point about stops is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. The market isn't for investing, for raising capital, if it were then institutional trading desks wouldn't be able to see the stop positions and run them - or EVERYBODY would get visibility. If I don't know where the stops are or how many there are, but the market maker does, then I'm at a ridiculous disadvantage to the market maker who does know them AND can run them. That's not investing, or market making or trading, it's robbery.
But of course that's just the 'way of the markets'. The TSX should at least be required to tell 'investors' that the game is stacked in favor of insiders, who get to see all the cards, and push the price anyway they want, whenever they want.