Yeah, these last few weeks if I heard one more hipster trader wannabe claiming that "we're in the handle of the cup-and-handle pattern! To da moonz!!!" I thought I was going to barf.  The Average Joe couldn't long or short trade their way out of a paper bag.  And whales can paint the tape to appear however they want.

The market seldom does what you think it will, and quite often does the opposite.  In fact, the whales know this and prey on it, by constantly leveraging fake news, emotional sentiment, and the greatest levels of confirmation bias.  They'll also attack HUGE leveraged long or short positions whenever they see them build up, just for the lulz and to make money.