a big assumption, but IMO there is currently less day trading going on with Darkcoin than with other alt coins. Moreover, with the last "dump" there are now more investors who are in for the long term, and less weak hands. Therefore, a rise is not necessarily followed by a correction, at least not for those values.
I haven't assumed anything. I've OBSERVED that a chart which had been behaving absolutely normally for the best part of 10 days suddenly doubled back on itself for no apparent reason other than the fact that it coincided with a barrage of rumours and screenshots about DRK on Bitfinex.
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The "big assumption" was what I said after ... Hence the "IMO".
Moreover, Evan announced a fix for the masternode payment issue around that time too.