The point you made about the trading at the open being lopsided to the buy side is the key. In fact, most of the day's volume can occur in the first 30 minutes. Sometimes it really doesn't take much, measured in money terms, at least, for a front loader or group of front loaders to buy shares with very little money while they watch traders jump in to bid prices even higher.
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