"They" are following their recent game plan once again. I know they are, because I sent low-level employees to their locker room to steal it.

Anyway, they let the price rise early in the day, to get the panicked small-trader shorts from the lieHUB trading gangs to cover. Then, they will try to walk (or tank) the price down later today, to induce those same guys to re-short (and, they hope, try to get people who just got to break-even to sell), and allow themselves to cover or accumulate.

Then, near the very end of the day, "they" stop trading and let the stock settle wherever it does.