A bunch of them tried to get short just ahead of the low today - see my earlier post. This is why we have been squeezed up again.
Always happens at the beginning and end of a bull market...early shorts.
You and I can read the turns fast enough to get away with small shorts; people who lose tend not to read where to get out, even if their initial trade was "right".
What I see is that the large interests have intervened in this market long enough to support it and throw out eager bears. We've run the stops at the high and participation on both sides of the market is now extremely low. This is not a condition I would be wanting to trade in, simply because the likelihood of decent opportunities appearing is very low. (and much less would I be wanting to short just yet, seeing how the market was supported today)
The only opportunities at the moment seem to be quick buys, if you can time them.
Whether I see something which may or may not look like a chart pattern does not factor in. Think about who is in the market, more importantly today who is not in the market, and how this effects future likely direction, magnitude, and volume levels.
The market has been squeezed back up to just below 52 week highs before post-market news...I'm not standing in front of that.