$LAB As long as the price is pushed high enough, there’s no fear of not having “retail investors” to short.

These limit orders at the 20 level likely won’t get filled.
The higher the market maker pushes, the higher the cost; if it reaches 10u, with a market cap of 10 billion, the market maker controls 98%, and there are also 200 million u circulating outside—basically like a small knockoff exchange.
Hard pushing won’t work; the cost isn’t small.