Investing In Stocks

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To the MMs
this is like taking candy from a baby. Simply they will paint the tape and
use whatever tactic to affect the charting bands. Thus the public and dumb
money they will have eating out of their hands. Effectively the MMs can
show a strong stock growing weak by manipulating the close price in order
to generate selling volume, delaying trading time to manipulate trading
activities, or even stalling the ask without honoring orders to hold a
stock price.

MMs follow a simple code of business when making a market in a stock
especially an OTC BB. That is the level that stocks will seek that yields
the most volume. Now this is very important because they make money on the
volume buying at the bid and selling at the ask. In other words, by
making the market they are buying low and selling high. Now smart money
adheres to that rule, so do all the market makers. They could careless
whether the stock is at $83 or at $0.23. All they care about is the action ...

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of Market Orders which is a dead
sign of an artificial run or momentum. Merely it is money in the bank for
them. Most get hung in a momentum or day trade or by the tactics of Market
makers, who are in the business to screw the public every chance they get
and the NASD is not going to do anything about it. They are merely making
the market liquid is there reasoning.

The market makers have created an added complication to the OTCBB's chaos
of the already volatile intra-day price movements created by dumb money,
momentum and day-traders. MMs can not relate to long-term holders in the
OTC BB. That makes absolutely no sense what so ever. They feel a large
percentage of ...

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