This is not a MM's trickster pps or MM manipulation,
A MM will take this to the moon if buyer sentiment changed. It is VERY rare for a stock to go a direction it doesn't deserve to go under whatever given circumstances surround it.
In fact short volume is alive and doing very well here 229,625 today and at least 10+% daily's lately, so I doubt they are scared, they make money off the direction of majority in whatever said stock (in this case LBSR)