Once you've made a trade, you always have to stay ready for new information or new trading volume to hit the market and affect your position.
One reason for these events is simple human behavior, well captured in a line from the 1940 book "Where Are the Customers' Yachts?":
"Your average Wall Streeter, faced with nothing profitable to do, does nothing for only a brief time. Then, suddenly and hysterically, he does something which turns out to be extremely unprofitable. He is not a lazy man."
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