1. Long period of accumulation or sell down to wear down the retails.
2. Free warrants and bonuses to lure free loaders and retails.
3. Flushes and breakouts are short lived so they cheap prices can be used to be accumulated more shares and higher prices to test of buyers are really coming in for real.
4. It will move and catch everyone off guard there shall be no strong signal whatsoever.
5. Once it moved, it shall be sustainable as the stock will rise higher where most would sell and the stock will continue it's meteoric rise.
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