The people you allude to are basically those and their followers who build some momentum by hyping the hell out of a ticker and as they are hyping they are selling into the run. Leaving all the people who look at the high volume boards and see them as being active get burnt because they enter high and these players exit. They make money and you lose your shirt.
The fact that they are not here is actually good news. Slow and steady is better than hype and then crash.
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