I have been thinking recently about how this all works for the shorts. They seem to manipulate it until there is low volume, which at first didn't make any sense to me because in order for them to cover they will need volume, a huge spike in price on low volume could crush them.... Then I got to thinking if I was going to take a risk on shorting how would I protect my investment... I pondered this for awhile. The other day it clicked. When you are short a stock and you are concerned that the gig may be up, well you start buying shares to sell to yourself later. If you can get the volume real low you can bounce it around and literally sell to yourself, you can play the up and down until a situation that would force you to cover is imminent... like say up-list, notice every time we close in on $2 they pull it down and then kill the volume then a lot of weird low volume trading patterns and things go on. Just a crazy theory, and of course they saw my post and just put in 4 trades at the same exact time...

GLTM