RE:ManagementRandom question for you - how do you get your Level 2 data? I haven't been able to find a good way of getting it.
There are tax reasons why you generally can't issue stock options in the money as it would create a taxable benefit immediately. Plus their stock option plan states that they can only issue options with the lowest price being the share price of the prior trading day.
I don't think management did any trading to manipulate the stock.. but I do think they took advantage of the timing and the recent weakness to get those options issued. They probably had the filing ready to go and was just waiting for the right time.