Yes, this is being completely ignored on this board. Let's look at yesterday's early trading (before market open, but esp. before 7:00 am when ONLY the big players can trade):
Tue, Aug 18, 2020 TSLA Pre-market:
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Notice how there was a strong steady climb until 07:00 am? It's like there was buying interest among only the biggest players. And heavy volume (record?) with over 511K shares traded by 08:00 a.m. and JUSK LOOK at the avg selling price (VWAP): $1,930.00 This is a HEAVY premium being paid for shares when ONLY market makers and other large entities are allowed to trade:
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Again, JUST LOOK at that jump in VWAP at 08:01 am! You need to understand that the way NASDAQ (Edgar) reports this data, is that the 08:00 entry (the 1st line in this table) is the VWAP from 04:00 until 08:00 hrs. But by 08:01, MMs had already walked the SP down by -$56.00 (more, because the 08:00 price was the AVERAGE from 4 to 8).
These are corrupt practices, but will never be detected due to lack of transparency.
So what could be happening is that Market Makers are trading real shares amongst themselves in a de facto private market (retail can't trade before 07:00 am) and paying the true market price for those shares.
Then when the great unwashed are let back into the paddock, the MMs magically drop the price 2 or 4% to cull the herd.
Today, SSDD, Oruce walked down from over $1900 at 07:00 hrs to $1,867 (-$33) now at 07:30 hrs.
@FrankSG has yet to address this evidence.
