One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that crowds usually don’t trust slow uptrends. Especially when price keeps grinding higher without explosive momentum. During those periods, a lot of people keep looking for shorts the entire way up because the move never feels convincing enough emotionally. Then after weeks or months of price slowly forcing acceptance, sentiment finally starts shifting. The same people who spent the whole trend fading the move suddenly start thinking: “okay maybe now I can finally long.” Ironically, that shift in crowd positioning sometimes starts happening closer to exhaustion than initiation. Not always of course. But there are definitely moments where the market spends more energy convincing participants than actually moving. And once the majority finally feels comfortable with the direction, the asymmetry often becomes much smaller than before.