I have no secret knowledge, its just the way it looks to me.
but either way in my opinion price going down is not great for getting people to look at the project, price going down signifies a dying project / lack of interest. everyone close to Bitshares knows we have great value in what we hold but sadly it takes effort to understand that, and in a world with some many cryptos you need something to drive you to look at a project, for me it generally not seeing the price move downwards.
if price goes down sure some people might buy shares but i would think they a more speculators doing so on centralised exchanges and will not even look at the client, the DEX, protocol or other offerings. if prices rise people might be interested enough to find out why it's moving up and what makes it tick, after which, if the price was to move down again maybe they would consider becoming a larger holder.
Just my thoughts,