Maybe you should take your own advice... Obviously you do not know as much as you think you do, and you do not see/watch the action on Level II.

On the one hand, you deny manipulation, and then on the other, you tell us we should put up our shares for sale to decrease manipulation? So which is it? Manipulation or no manipulation?

First, all of us on this forum are well aware of this issue and have discussed this long ago, while you were still an infant 'trader'. Putting our shares up for sale at high asks certainly reduces the number of shares available for shorting, but I do not see how that can prevent manipulation when institutions buy and sell to themselves in small lots and walk the price down. Not to mention the fact that certain investment houses, such as RBC, do not allow margin orders on Venture stocks, so anyone holding shares of a Venture stock in an RBC account is assured that their shares are unavailable for shorting.

Second, we have also removed our stop-loss orders (I never use them anyway) so that the MMs have less incentive to walk the price down to collect our shares that they see for sale on the Level 3.

There has clearly been, and continues to be, some manipulation in the trading of NOT shares.

B.