Trying to understand... are you saying there is not enough volume pushing the price up at the moment for it to be considered an indication of a real reversal back up? I guess I was thinking the price could rise even with low buyer volume if the sellers are holding out.
Yes. That's basically what I'm saying.
What newbs often call "whales manipulating markets" is known by experienced traders as "volume analysis".
Also, there is a myth that only whales with lots of money are capable of "manipulating markets". In fact if you look at the trading history for the last few hours of DRK, it's full of nonsense decimal trades such as 0.25 DRK, 0.53804 DRK, and 0.54396 DRK.
These are manipulative trades which are constantly pushing the price to one end or the other of the order book spread (the gap between the lowest ask and the highest bid).
At one point, they actually had the effect of attracting a >1000 buy order as some nervous trader got worried that it was about to take off. But these are changed days from when the price was at 0.0005 and that order was quickly removed once it dropped back below the 18 level.
During the last 3 weeks of pumping, the market has priced in everything that can possibly happen in terms of fundamentals of this coin. There is nothing that Evan can do - no master node nothing, no Darksend perfection, no RC3 that can push the price up from here for a while until the last rise gets "baked in". That may require it going back to "mikey" levels prior to any future revaluations IMO. (Or some compromise between here and mikey levels).