Just my worthless two cents: I think the market lacks the needed buyers to really drive bullish volume. Sure, there are buyers, but just not enough. It's a problem over a year in the marking. It's the reason why since October 10th 2025, we've been in chop mode, except for April to June of this year. It's the reason for the constant rotations: there simply isn't enough money to keep multiple growth sectors running at the same time. It's the reason why Semi's and software can't get a bid on the same day. It's the same buyers for both, and there are too few of them. It's the reason why market breadth is shite outside of mags and a handful of other sectors. It's the reason why $PLTR, $DELL, $NTAP, $HPE can act great, but another 5000 stocks do not. What few buyers that are active are concentrated in a few stocks. I know what the constant institutional bid looks like and feels like in the tape. It's that guardian angel that protects you from having consequences for your bad habits. It rewards you for believing that an invisible safety net is present on every dip buy. The market doesn't give me any of those vibes and hasn't done so for some time. I don't know what the buyers are waiting for: lower oil maybe, political change, or an end of the war. Who knows. Normally, the institutional buyers see past the problems of today. They see the future solutions to today's problems we small time traders can't see. We just ride their coattails. My guess is as of right now, the institutional buyers don't see any solutions to today's problems either, which is troublesome.