Pretty clear - IOC is simply the most manipulated stock on the entire NYSE. First of all over 80% of the trades ARE NOT ON THE NYSE. They are hidden in dark pools and the manipulation is palatable. The bid and ask spreads are larger than any NYSE I have ever owned. BY FAR. When I hit an ask of 800 shares sometimes they give me 50 and pull the rest - something that should never happen with a NYSE stock. When they are buying in dark pools they show 100 shares but you can hit it 50 times and it keeps being replaced.
They can send this NYSE stock down $2 on little volume. Agree the stock often reacts BEFORE Adam's stories hit. Should be reported to the SEC. The premiums in the puts and calls allow them to cash in on the manipulation - which is often coordinated with IOC stories in BS PNG blogs or on SA with a failed poker player with no energy background who has been wrong so much about IOC yet still is allowed to call mgt "crooked" and get his ridiculously negative headlines published on yahoo finance to scare.How he can he call IOC management "crooked" and be allowed to be published is a head scratcher, especially since he has been telling people to short IOC since Nov 2011 when the stock was in the 30's and then ran to the 90s. Who is crooked are the hedge funds that short IOC and manipulate the trading by hiding over 80% of the volume of this NYSE company in dark pools, and then get articles in the PNG press, hire known felons like Barry Minkow to publish questionable articles (Minkow is back in jail after being hired by a famous IOC short hedge fund). As an ex poker player with NO energy or finance background - it really is amazing how many articles this nothing gets published for his hedgie friends. Soon he will be shut up on IOC forever imo.