It closed strong even with the 300K block market right before close and all the traders exiting and it being shorted at the same time as it was Friday, no hold weekend day. Traded .295 avg yesterday today after bear swarm traded .315 avg and closed on that under heavy heavy pressure.
Was only weak at lunchtime with the tappy tap low volume walk down right after lunch jumped back in its spot.
Look at the old school mountain graph/chart on WSJ that is a typical what I cal walk up the hill into the mountains recovery without all the lines etc. of today's charts and like you said EOW no weekend hold big block hits it shook it off and ended strong.
Has the swarm first thing in the morning kicked them off, had the walk down on low volume at lunch then right back up and that little dip where they were hitting it with everything they could including that 300K market sell block it popped right up there on the end said nah not today fellas.
For us old school cats that's the start of something beautiful.