I don´t believe that the price on bitstamp, drop back to 117.xx, with this buying pressure right now.
There is lots of buying pressure, right. But it can't move the price, and at some point the buyers are out of fiat. Then its the turn of the sellers again (just the nature of every exchange ever

), which
will move the price (simply because the ask walls are way weaker). This equation only changes if mt.gox rises significantly, amplifying the buying pressure.
I just don't see bitstamp rising much higher at the moment, not even to 120.
The problem bitstamp has is that while it is rising (as you described), mt.gox is falling (ever since that 1000BTC ask wall appeared, there has been downward pressure). And while bitstamp has been getting stronger - they are sustaining about the same volume as mt.gox at the moment

- they still can't defy mt.gox price leadership endlessly. Not when there is a huge mountain of BTC to buy up at the same time...
We are falling? Didn't really watch, but we are between 122-123 more than 4 hours.
from 123.5 to 122.5. So "falling" is really saying too much. But yes, there is downward pressure. The price just can't really fall because of the bid walls, same as bitstamp can't rise because of ask walls (though to be fair, there is much more fiat on mt.gox, so movement
is easier there then on bitstamp a.t.m.).
By the way, did anyone notice that in the last days we often had bitstamp and mt.gox pulling in different directions? Like right now mt.gox is pulling down while bitstamp is pulling up? Wonder when for the first time bitstamp will win and mt.gox follows...
