Drifting up on low volumes in a gentle ongoing short squeeze.
These types of markets typically run into a hard event and crumple. The timing may be problematic for the punters, and so the gentle short squeeze is fed daily.
The equity market commentary on the US financial news networks would make Baghdad Bob blush. I think the wiseguys are getting a little nervous because mom and pop seem to be sitting this one out.
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"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994