RE:RE:RE:RE:Gap to fill at $6.57Cashtango, you are correct. I do understand what a market maker does.
I mean to say it seems as though other market participants (sellers), who hope the price goes down, dump piles of shares to give the sense of panic selling. One can never really prove a nefarious motive here, as they are after all entitled to sell.
At any rate, others see a huge amount of shares on the ask side, a wall as it were, and want to sell. So they do sell, and add to the downside pressure. It becomes a self fulfilling spiral downward......along the way shorters can keep dumping shares to keep the momentum.
Of course this happens in the opposite direction too. I am saying I can see this kind of action happening with earning results.
But maybe this is just a myth, and not real,.....as you seem to suggest.