For the record, I never knew about it before I read about it on Trilema. MP obviously knew about it, but is the only one here that did and never said anything to anyone before Erik announced it. This anyone includes the numerous PT operators, which were (perhaps understandably) at least nonplussed by the shock of it. So, suspect away, but nothing came out of MPEx on the score. I have all this on divine authority.
That aside, the graph you point to suffers from the following defects:
a. it comes from an untrustworthy source;
b. fails to show anything out of the ordinary and
c. (as pankkake points out) is mistimed.
So essentially this is people continued trading the stock even while it's worth a fixed price, ok that's an explanation I can accept.That aside, the graph you point to suffers from the following defects:
a. it comes from an untrustworthy source;
b. fails to show anything out of the ordinary and
c. (as pankkake points out) is mistimed.
Let alone for the possibility of point c) being wrong, in which case somebody made it appear this way.
I won't count pixels on this chart to determine if there is a time difference between the announcement and the onset of the rise, it's not that important to me.
So no, on the balance of evidence nobody got wind of anything whatsoever and did nothing with it at all. The SA crew found about the whole thing late and just threw some words on the page more or less randomly. Which you know, is cool and all, but...seriously, that site used to benefit from a lot more intelligent effort, and it showed. Goonworld running out of people? Or just a dearth of smart ones?
I have no idea, to be honest I too looked at it as self-evident, and since it really being insider trading would provide the most amount of comendy I was expecting it. Turns out that might be wrong, not that bad, there are plenty of other things to laugh at. 