These days MM trade their own accounts more than ever. Gone the days when they pocketed the spread & were happy as clams...now they want to spread & they want the action....so you buy with the MM's when & where they are loading!! Eventually they will want to distribute the shares they have ACCUMULATED....& UP WE GO!!!
NTEK Trading in distinctive ~4 week cycles: (till this consolidation which I suspect will run ~twice as long to play out--)