The Specialist or Market Maker for $$N is luring traders...

The Specialist or Market Maker for $$N is luring traders whenever there is inactivity. The spreads between (Bid/Ask) provides enough motivation for MM to constantly provide baits (even at short term loss) for impatient traders.

'Do not use short term trading strategies foe long term investments.'

'in the short run, the market is like a voting machine--tallying up which firms are popular and unpopular. But in the long run, the market is like a weighing machine--assessing the substance of a company' - Ben Graham