Elon Musk kneels! DOGE skyrockets, but the real driving force is not the retail investors?

DOGE is firing on all cylinders, soaring from $0.1909 to $0.2031 in a short period, with a total market cap skyrocketing to $30.39 billion! Even more astonishing, the trading volume surged to $1.57 billion within 24 hours! On the surface, it seems like an "emotion-driven" rise, but in reality, there are hidden secrets.
This round of outburst coincides with Elon Musk's rare "apology to Trump", causing a media explosion, and DOGE has once again become the focus of attention. But don't rush to think this is the retail investors' carnival – data shows that retail trading enthusiasm has not yet reached historical highs, and those sleepless "ant investors" seem not to have entered the market yet.
True power may come from behind - institutional funds, large "whales" making low-frequency large transactions, combined with automated trading systems that are highly sensitive to news, delivering precise strikes against short positions, triggering a chain reaction of short covering. Short sellers are giving in one after another, and prices are passively pushed higher.
This is not a simple rise; this is an organized, premeditated, and well-funded precision "pump". The next step depends on whether retail investors are "hooked", forming a real wave of speculation— or, there may be even bigger players behind the scenes who have yet to reveal themselves. The storm has just begun; are you ready?