did you short this thing like a dipshit?

I wonder how many prop accounts were holding the bag just before it was halted. This is a case where leverage can kill the trader, and their firm...
no pro in their right mind would have been long this for size. if they were, they would have blown up on something else anyhow.
How does a Pump and Dump like CYNK and NEWL work? How do you get a stock from $1.00 to $20.00? USU did the same thing last year but NYSE did not halt it, why? Does anyone know how these boiler room guys operate? The details would be cool to grasp how people get the stocks up, I know how Timmy Syk. kills the stocks but how do you get these pieces of trash up so high?
I wrote about RVLT's previous Trade Halt under another name, they halted it at $17 and it opened at $3.00 and went back to $.20