market maker

114 days ago

Versarien shares up 36% today: is that an irrational market or just a rational evil market maker? The dead cat bounce explained.

Versarien (VRS) has made it explicitly clear that it is likely to go into administration and that shareholders will lose everything, something that I celebrate! So why are the shares up 36% today, albeit to just 0.015p. This is a classic dead cat bounce and in a market maker system perfectly rational. It often happens as the end approaches.

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1350 days ago

You'd almost think Peel Hunt was up to no good - musicMagpie share price

musicMagpie (MMAG) clearly needs a bailout placing to survive. There is only selling ( apart from spoof boardroom trades) so the shares should be heading lower. But one market maker is holding the price up.  Others clearly would not touch this with a bargepole given what we have exposed here this week.  So which market maker is holding the price up?  Hint….

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