IDK either, I've come across "confessions of a basher" type writings on the web here & there.....usually it was a financial investment house on the east coast behind it all trying to make coin for their clients.....They employ bashers, set them up with a laptop and give them an assignment to bash.....monetary compensation?....It's an hourly thing or pay per post & reply with bonus incentives for achieving set PPS drops in a given period of time......they also must be doing the "go short, then go long".....ride it down, then ride it back up.....that's my take...open to other ideas!.....cheers