But if they make a few bucks this week they know that longs will keep low bids, they then follow and pick up more cheaper than the longs... Their $100 profit this week turns to $200 next week and so forth, its simplistic really. The objective should be to keep the bid as close as possible to the ask. Don't get greedy and want more and therefore lower your bid! They will only follow suite, so by the time us longs make our 10s of thousands they will have already made 100s of thousands....there is a simple reason why par is made common knowledge, that is where all bidding minimums should have taken place. Anything under that should be bought off the ask bringing it back up. C'Mon that's 101!!!!!