RE: Market Abuse against Petro Matad10 Dec 2025 19:25
Master ; I'm not saying it's right, but the MMs drop the price sharply in order to create liquidity, as they tend not to hold many microcap shares in their inventories due to the risks involved with high volatility, low liquidity shares.
This does two things ; f firstly it hits stops so that they can buy cheap shares ready to meet any demand stirred up by an RNS, and secondly it shakes out those who panic easily.
A classic example was an RNS in 2023, when after finishing at around 3p the previous day, an RNS came out at 7am, and at 8am the MMs marked the price down to 1.8p on the open, only for it to go as high as 6.5p later in the day.