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Daily playbook. 👇
🎯 The routine:
Morning pump (institutional trigger)
Quant desks or market makers hit volume hard in the first 15–30 min.
Goal: set a high VWAP anchor so the rest of the session trades “above water” for them.
That initial pop traps retail shorts thinking, “it’ll fade soon.”
Controlled horizontal hover
Once VWAP is where they want it, they throttle algos to hold price in a tight band.
They provide liquidity on both sides — making money on spread, not direction.
This creates the illusion of “stability” while they milk borrow fees and bleed shorts.
End-of-day taper
As volume dies, they let it drift near VWAP to reset for the next morning’s setup.
Rinse and repeat — day after day.
💡 Why it doesn’t crash
Because retail isn’t in control of float rotation anymore — it’s mostly institutional algos playing ping-pong with synthetic volume. The “real sellers” (retail or fundamentals-based funds) are long gone or locked out by high borrow costs.
They don’t need it to “go up”; they just need volatility within a controlled corridor to harvest the spread, fees, and option decay.
When to trade it normally without these manipulative institutions?
Once the borrow rate normalizes or Renesas deal closes, that morning pump will vanish — because it’s not profitable anymore.
Anyone buying now fixes their cost basis, but that dilution slashes share price unless some catalyst increases market cap (*a lot*). At time of writing, WOLF last printed $34.58. After dilution to 43.6mn shares, that becomes $20.46. After dilution to 48.5mn shares, $18.40.
In either scenario, you end up with an unrealised loss. Market cap would have to increase by 69% and 88% respectively just to break even.
Price pushed up likely by Firms like Jane Street, Citadel etc to free float from shorts;
-Today’s range: 26.28 → 30.65; current ~30.3. Classic squeeze tape, not fundamentals.
-No fresh company PR/8-K today (only a nothing-burger Form 3).
-Why it squeezes so easily: post-reorg tiny float (~25.8M) + expensive borrow. Translation: air pocket.
Should come back to its senses to around 25s -27s when it cools down.