There are MANY institutional shareholders who buy/sell based on quarterly financial results and never extrapolate except by fitting lines and exponentials to pa

There are MANY institutional shareholders who buy/sell based on quarterly financial results and never extrapolate except by fitting lines and exponentials to past quarterly results. The C-Suite knows that this bottomless pool of money is available for pump & dump, so they do. If you can see what they are doing, you can ride along too.