Oct 1-18=$111,473,338
They use sophisticated proprietary stock trading programs that move the stock up or down. Machine vs human (retail)
TD Waterhouse says that 85% of their trading these days is RETAIL Cannabis trades, this is cannon fodder for these MoMo makers (momentum makers) i.e. year 2000-2001 tech bubble
These are manipulating the stock price up and down daily to make a profit ...i.e.Anonymous cashed out
Oct 18= $13,583,616.00 net of the Aphria market.
The MoMo team has millions to fire up a rally, get the stock moving up thru buying , then when retail buyers (you and me) rush into the stock , then some MoMo makers (momentum makers) switch to shorting by selling DRIVE the stock down by selling (hitting every bidders offer to buy stock) .
This triggers retail stop losses and a huge avalanche of shares being sold . Then legit Brokerage house # suck up all the shares at a discount to cover their short trades
and some so they can be ready to sell to retail at a profit when they rally it back up.
i.e. 16.77 on Oct 17 2018-10-17 APH
Open 17.00 High 19.80 Low 16.77 close 19.40 shares traded 23,535,123.
And it always seems to be the day before big news, a rumour(leak) gets to the MoMo makers before it hits the news.
Its pure manipulation and illegal but TSX allows this anonymous to function. No investigation . So the strategy is to ALWAYS try to trade as anonymous trades. A day traders paradise.
Playing between the Bollinger Bands range which repeats up and down using the one minute measurement. This pattern happens every half hour lately.
Day Traders sell at the top of the Bollinger band and buy at the bottom of the band. With a move that could be .30-.60 cents 1-2 times per hour every trade day.
This works for day traders but not buy and hold...
If you buy and hold you need bottles of antacids and love roller coasters and HOLD ON .
Just pick a target i.e.$30.00 to sell your shares and go about your life and ignore the UPS and DOWNS. Aphria is going to $30-50.00 once it hits the NYSE . So one day you will wake up be rich.
| Broker Positions for C:APH Broker #1 from 20181001 to 20181019 |
| Date | Bought | $Val | Ave | Sold | $Val | Ave | Net | Position | $Net | $Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20181001 | 2,308,940 | 41,503,227 | 17.975 | 3,719,215 | 67,024,877 | 18.021 | -1,410,275 | -1,410,275 | 25,521,650 | 25,521,650 |
| 20181002 | 3,639,978 | 60,043,431 | 16.496 | 5,658,019 | 93,262,470 | 16.483 | -2,018,041 | -3,428,316 | 33,219,039 | 58,740,689 |
| 20181003 | 3,530,150 | 59,338,806 | 16.809 | 4,796,162 | 80,676,300 | 16.821 | -1,266,012 | -4,694,328 | 21,337,494 | 80,078,183 |
| 20181004 | 2,513,640 | 41,688,279 | 16.585 | 3,103,006 | 51,474,282 | 16.589 | -589,366 | -5,283,694 | 9,786,003 | 89,864,186 |
| 20181005 | 2,106,473 | 34,375,570 | 16.319 | 2,807,097 | 45,762,360 | 16.302 | -700,624 | -5,984,318 | 11,386,790 | 101,250,976 |
| 20181009 | 2,976,445 | 51,265,813 | 17.224 | 3,265,702 | 56,142,224 | 17.191 | -289,257 | -6,273,575 | 4,876,411 | 106,127,387 |
| 20181010 | 6,556,099 | 123,232,617 | 18.797 | 6,228,568 | 116,514,492 | 18.706 | 327,531 | -5,946,044 | -6,718,125 | 99,409,262 |
| 20181011 | 5,304,689 | 104,563,502 | 19.712 | 4,930,706 | 97,152,583 | 19.704 | 373,983 | -5,572,061 | -7,410,919 | 91,998,343 |
| 20181012 | 2,792,941 | 54,434,565 | 19.49 | 3,226,989 | 62,812,636 | 19.465 | -434,048 | -6,006,109 | 8,378,071 | 100,376,414 |
| 20181015 | 3,098,260 | 61,383,587 | 19.812 | 3,073,337 | 60,806,337 | 19.785 | 24,923 | -5,981,186 | -577,250 | 99,799,164 |
| 20181016 | 4,742,798 | 91,263,228 | 19.242 | 5,025,459 | 96,597,522 | 19.222 | -282,661 | -6,263,847 | 5,334,294 | 105,133,458 |
| 20181017 | 4,774,693 | 89,424,822 | 18.729 | 4,402,931 | 82,181,086 | 18.665 | 371,762 | -5,892,085 | -7,243,736 | 97,889,722 |
| 20181018 | 3,592,854 | 71,988,037 | 20.036 | 4,278,664 | 85,571,653 | 20.00 | -685,810 | -6,577,895 | 13,583,616 | 111,473,338 |
| TOTAL | 47,937,960 | 884,505,484 | 18.451 | 54,515,855 | 995,978,822 | 18.27 | -6,577,895 | 111,473,338 |