[paulriddle]

But unless you're investing other people's money, you are a small fish in the sea. Like, if all you have is 200k then none of your decisions being public would affect you in a negative way. Admittedly, I don't know much about the stock market but I can't imagine anyone caring if you want to short some company's stock.

[PaulHoule]

Sometimes I like to play penny stocks and in some cases I bought $800 worth of shares and that wound up being 40% of the volume of that day.

(Don't laugh I sold half of the stake for $1200 a few months later. It has been up and down and I haven't looked at it for years but the other half is worth about $1500 right now)

It's true that you can't move AAPL that way but there are many things about trading that I didn't understand before I adopted a few penny stocks where I can see all the trades.

[runawaybottle]

Do you manipulate the price higher and then hope people think it’s a trending stock? How often do you do this?

Move the stock higher, peddle it on /r/wsb, sell your position, buy up shorts?