Why This Rise Was the Biggest Pre and Post Close

Before the rise, the market had already done the hard work on the downside:

• A sustained sell sequence

• Repeated lower lows with shrinking continuation

• Volume spent earlier, not accelerating into new lows

That’s a specific condition: pressure without progress. Sellers were still active, but their effort was no longer translating into displacement. When that happens, the market isn’t trending—it’s storing imbalance.

The rise didn’t create energy.

It released energy that was already there.

Later in the session, liquidity refilled.

Choices returned.

Competition re-entered.

Any subsequent rise had to negotiate.

This one didn’t.

Because this one was authored.