iLie works strictly on penny/sub penny stocks that are highly leveraged, have little financial means, and easy to manipulate through naked shorting, coordinated runs (up and down) and usually aided and/or in conjunction with toxic funding. little of this occurs at $0.05 and above. more so - the financial swings between $0.0001 and $0.0002 is 100% or 50% between $0.0002 and $0.0003 and very attractive compared to $0.001 and $0.0011 let alone $0.01 to $0.0101. new traders are immediately directed to iLie on internet searches with any type of trading questions/research (due to various reasons) and thus are easily suckered in. more advanced/sophisticated traders know it is BS but use it as a barometer and just follow the trends/money flow to make some trades. kind of like playing poker with pros - you leave them alone and go after the tourists/newbies to take the real money down (unless you have the monster hand and the pro is getting greedy/careless).
it is very difficult to prove manipulation/collusion as it is done with winks and history that cant be traced back to individual entities (such as the 10K marker offers). due to lax enforcement and the sheer number of scams going on at any one time - the risk/reward is attractive - especially if it is the first time and you are facing a trivial slap on the wrist/fine/penalty. however, the ability to short and manipulate is a cause and effect of other prior regulations trying to shut down other loopholes/scams. long story short - there is no perfect system and they will always find a way to fleece those who are looking to get rich quick and/or dont do DD. the unfortunate ones are the ones who think they ARE doing DD and get a few nasty bruises before they realize they are playing against the odds.
when you have real companies with real plans and products - it is easy to just use inferences and suggestions to lump them in with the rest of the bad actors. most readers wont fact check or just assume all the companies are scams. when one gets caught in this undertoe - it is tough to get out. however, TPAC kind of threw them for a loop with the aggressive buyback. caught the MMs offguard and they had been playing catch up aggressively until they finally were able to short themselves back into profitability with the last major dump into the teens/low 20s. they still have a lot of shares to cover and they arent doing so with the low volume today. they tried pushing it down and the longs stepped up and bought so it is sideways for now.
they will wait for some more high impact updates via twitter/PR to let it run hard to generate volume to cover and then short it back down once the momo traders pile on. in the end, long term investors should continue to see higher highs and lower lows while the MMs and traders flip for pennies and try to stay one step ahead of each other.
it is very difficult to prove manipulation/collusion as it is done with winks and history that cant be traced back to individual entities (such as the 10K marker offers). due to lax enforcement and the sheer number of scams going on at any one time - the risk/reward is attractive - especially if it is the first time and you are facing a trivial slap on the wrist/fine/penalty. however, the ability to short and manipulate is a cause and effect of other prior regulations trying to shut down other loopholes/scams. long story short - there is no perfect system and they will always find a way to fleece those who are looking to get rich quick and/or dont do DD. the unfortunate ones are the ones who think they ARE doing DD and get a few nasty bruises before they realize they are playing against the odds.
when you have real companies with real plans and products - it is easy to just use inferences and suggestions to lump them in with the rest of the bad actors. most readers wont fact check or just assume all the companies are scams. when one gets caught in this undertoe - it is tough to get out. however, TPAC kind of threw them for a loop with the aggressive buyback. caught the MMs offguard and they had been playing catch up aggressively until they finally were able to short themselves back into profitability with the last major dump into the teens/low 20s. they still have a lot of shares to cover and they arent doing so with the low volume today. they tried pushing it down and the longs stepped up and bought so it is sideways for now.
they will wait for some more high impact updates via twitter/PR to let it run hard to generate volume to cover and then short it back down once the momo traders pile on. in the end, long term investors should continue to see higher highs and lower lows while the MMs and traders flip for pennies and try to stay one step ahead of each other.
