I think you are right. They were BS bids. They happen to be right before a big overnight pump. Defiantly some kind of manipulation going on. If you look at the chart below you can see that the BS bids were at 8954, just before a massive overnight pump.
Still works, this is so easy buying the cash close and selling the cash open. Same thing still occurs 11 years later.
Someone mark this bump. 11 1/2 years and you do this? Rick, man...What is your angle? We know you suffered some bad drawdown, but why bump this particular thread? Hmmm!