Market makers playing games. It's easy for them to
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And then we have the case of the incredible disappearing "asks." Some of us remember a day when a supposedly 70,000 share "ask" appeared on a somewhat low volume day. One of our valued posters put in an order for a pretty big chunk of that 70k, at their asking price -- but **poof** magically the ask disappeared and he didn't get filled.
They like to put those phony "asks" in to scare us.