In a way they are helping keeping the price action stable with slow and steady move up allowing for support to build and chart to consolidate.
Perhaps MMs even know that this has a lot of room to run and are allowing it to do so in a more sustained way instead of just making it spike and crash.
Of course large volume increases will force the action but this lower volume steady bullish trend is perfect and can go on for quite a while
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