RE: TW28 Jul 2025 16:55
When a struggling company needs cash, big investment funds essentially say "we'll pay your bills, but in return we want to set up our own money-printing machine." They buy millions of shares at the fundraising price of 17p, then use their massive positions to control the stock price in a tight trading range - buying every time it drops to 16p and selling every time it hits 17p. It's like having a rigged slot machine that pays out 1p profit on every pull, and when you're trading millions of shares, those pennies add up to serious money. Meanwhile, regular investors who bought the stock earlier at higher prices are completely trapped - they can't sell without losing money, so they're forced to watch helplessly as the big players slowly extract profit month after month. Once the institutions have squeezed every last penny from this controlled trading range, they'll simply walk away and let the stock fall to its true value, leaving ordinary shareholders holding worthless shares while the smart money moves on to set up the same scam with the next desperate company needing a bailout.