People forget history. Athens kicked the Persians butts and 50 (198 deaths vs 6000 . see the parthanon) years later the Persians came back. That sparked centuries of war. Anyone who thinks this will end fast is from some other world.

The wave form is showing attenuation from this outlier but there are others that are modifying it. You can see the dampening effect of the efforts by govt's and the expectation evelope from the Elections both abroad and in the USA. However, this is effected by the reduced numbers of investors and therefore we should expect that when it is perturbed it will oscilate wildly. There's just less depth to absorb the shocks.

Our sp was scewed by stifel. So for a true picture of the trading you simple minus that out. By removing singular events what emerges is a much more normal new cycle picture. You find that the traders here are much more in tune than you might have expected. Much more than other stocks. This is why we sell after a PR tour starts. It's also why on rare occasions we go up a bit on news then sell off. On these occasions we are actually getting new blood as a result of the news.

By calculating the trades per house we can get a rough idea of just how many of us there are. It should not surprise us that we are few in number. In the last 2 years we gained just over 2000 new people and lost 1200 for a net of 800. Looking at the balance of buys and sells results in the current share price and this is why we track the S&P and why there is some corelation to the price of copper. For the large low grade (relative term because profits are high) porphry this is also not a surprise.

For some people who think I'm yanking your chain for my own delight, you'd be quite wrong. There's a couple hundred of us who trade 10k shares at a time who appreciate the info I provide. Only a small core of us chat regularly.