I saw very obvious Buy Limits at $2.61 as market orders made new lows but price held.  This means that all the market sell orders were being absorbed by buy limit orders.  The trend was up so the sellers were the weak hands and had to cover when they couldn't push price lower even with all their market orders.  Market orders usually create breakouts and when they fail, a squeeze is very likely.  Limit orders can only hold price and when market buy orders came in, the squeeze was almost a sure thing.

I underestimated the power of this squeeze and exited way too early before the acceleration spike that I usually look for.  I find that being an analyst is way easier than being a trader and would probably make a lot more money giving instructions to a good trader.