SK hynix clung to the surface of Hidaka acting viciously, yet the order book showed bids so thin—only half of the asks. This bullish candle at the high level was the seller’s net set in advance. It drove hard for twenty-four hours, nearly half a percent of the volume, with the top twenty levels of sell orders stacked up to twice the thickness of the buy orders; no matter how finely they ground the spread, it only saved the seller on travel costs. Over seven hours, the big-account long positions synchronized and shrank by twenty percent. The main force first backed out the ladder at this point, and the final strike at the high level all landed in the hands of retail traders.