why such a buildup before the auction and dump right away? the auction is tomorrow isn't it?

i don't get it. unless the auction has zero influence here

I believe that the consensus is that Bitstamp is largely the price leader - however, it is inevitable that various activities, including extraordinate volume and upward price pressures will cause Bitstamp to gravitate in the direction of dominant price trends (but that following does not remove bitstamp from being the best guage for price and price direction). 

likely, you will arrive at erroneous conclusions if you focus too heavily on exchanges that allow both marginal trading and no fee trading - but in order to have a better understanding of bitcoin price and its movements, you are better off to watch the trends on those platforms, as well - which tends to be the case with many of the participants of this thread (once you remove the disingenuous trolls from the mix)