MESO Nasdaq update, page-5732

Yes, there are ex hedge fund managers on tape admitting to such things AND they like to do such things to stocks with a high retail base in particular.

Easy money for them - made easier by zero policing.....

Thing is I suggest you learn to benefit from the reality rather than whine about it.

People just need to be aware that bigger players, in the absence of other big players stopping them ( GG stopping them a good example as are share buybacks ), can make the share price do whatever they want which includes :-

1) stop loss runs
2) creating charting graphs to enable chart followers to buy or sell
3) push prices down for takeover offers
4) push prices down for raises
5) after the raises push them up again to enable selling and move onto the next target.
6) push prices down remorselessly while they buy via nominee companies as the despondent retails sell out ignorantly.
7) enable dark market trading to benefit from inside knowledge that retailors never get to see. Again, neither policed nor actually looked into by the regulators.

However right now I tend to agree that general market behaviour is the reason and simply not stock specific at all for MSB.