WTF ? You guys must get conned all of the time !! If so, please get out of this businesss !Why are you condemning this guy so hard?
He's slick, he's shrewd, he's really smart. He set-up a scheme based on Wicker, a powerful encrypted, private, and temporary messsaging sight. He would would message them (his trading friends) to GO, GO, GO LONG....and his henchmen would pile into long options positions all at once. This would swamp market makers like like Citadel. They would have to react by selling GED call options and THEN covering with long equity GED positions....thus forcing the GED equity price ever higher. It was a sell-feeding mechanism. Beautifully architechted. Everyone is talking about shorts, but that was total B.S.. Misdirection....a classic fraud techniquue.
Wow, both SEC and ET Traders are going to so fooled by this ruse.