The industry has basically 2 blanket programs they use on small day trading stocks.
When Bullish bets they use a pump program. That's when you see stocks blasting off.
Today I see they have the other Naked short program and they are working to take down every stock that's higher
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Is there an easy way to detect this other than analyzing the price action of many small caps? Overall the market was performing well this morning and some of the small cap ETFs I track were up also. Was curious if there were some keys that’s might help make those algos more obvio