RE:Fair to say this is TRASH April to November/December are bad times for speculative stocks, especially on the cse and otc exchanges.
The big players and shorters constantly bash and manipulate these stocks down for months and accumulate at lows just to turn up the pumping and positive news articles just in time for tax season.
Look at most speculative stocks and their big run ups are late fall and early winter with all time highs in the January to February time frame when everyone is loading up their rrsp and tfsa accounts. This is when the big players sell to the uneducated investors that only look at a 3 month chart, read a couple paid articles saying nothing but great things, have massive FOMO issues, and think the shares they bought are "going to the moon".
Then the cycles starts again. More bashing and manipulating for 8 to 9 months ... testing stop losses, bash bash bash, and accumulate. And pump again and sell to lemmings at all time highs once again.
just my opinion from buying speculative stocks over the years