RE: Delayed Trades9 Feb 2021 08:29
Amanensia - Apologies for the late response. I've seen it a few times where a stock moves up too quickly, the MM's will try to delay the execution of trades, so as to stop the stock from breaking out, normally when they believe the stock is being oversold. The volumes trading may become so great that no matter how much the MM's try to delay the trades, the market will dictate because of the sheer volumes, trades then have to be executed and the SP inevitably rises.
This is exactly what has happened here, just as I thought, hence the high opening price.