Thing is no one is going to prosecute a randomer on the internet for throwing $5k at an option especially when there's no proof that it was done in bad faith.
To be clear, market manipulation is very vague and very broad, and from what I've read the SEC is only going after you if there was fraud or lying involved. Most of WSB's activity is not illegal market manipulation.
P.S. not legal advice
I referenced the % just as a convenient label for that group of market participants.
What is a "fair impression," it's all up to owners of the paper to decide on selling price, nobody else can.
> Not when moving the price is the goal.
Market transactions don't move the price, its people doing them do.