i don't see what relevance your "plumbing exercise" (whatever...

i don't see what relevance your "plumbing exercise" (whatever that is) has to your comment where you posted a picture of a zoomed-in price chart, that shows price going up and then down, labelling that "a pump and dump".

Are you saying that every time, any price goes up and then down - it can be classified as a "pump and dump", considering the actual definition of the "pump and dump"?

And if not, what criteria did you use to establish that the zoomed in part of the chart that you posted a screenshot of depicts an actual pump-and-dump (considering the definition)?