Multiple tides: Company, sector, overall market and political!
Fear, always fear, be it from missing a run or dreaded loss of booked gains.
Short sellers, traders and emotional wonks leverage ongoing manipulation.
Moderation and awareness versus following the knee-jerk reactionary flock.
Believing a rational answer exists for irrational behavior is a fools errand.
And serious investors are certainly not blind to resulting market actions.
I see it as a feed-back loop, best isolated by knowledge and prudence.
Excesses remain the anatomy of a market.