If you wanted to load up shares of a good stock and keep loading over time would it not make sense to try to keep it as low as you can? If you knew a stock was going to be a huge success and all you had to do was pay some low life's to bash the stock so you can buy cheap then sell when it runs and buy cheap again time after time and you had no feelings would you? It's called manipulation. Liehub execs do it all the time and have even been arrested for it. These guys want money they don't care how they do it. Short the stock, buy and hold the sell at top. Short again. Lie about the company. Keep adding over time as people sell out of fear. Hold, sell, bash, buy more.... Not that hard to understand.... Just shouldn't be allowed. But then there are some scam stocks so it makes it hard to regulate it. Good companies get bashed all the time. Everyone has their reasons why they are doing it and some may not be the same as others. One may be adding. The other may be short. Don't think that these guys waste their time doing it for no reason. Would you waste everyday of your life doing it for free?