My market making is pretty small-time, and if the current pace of rise keeps going past next week, I will stop trying to squeeze out alpha, and just hang on for dear beta, so don't count on me to indemnify your loans.

Seriously, this market is so one-sided that market-making a very tenuous proposition.  Every minute I am not all-in is another minute I risk a FOMU catastrophe.

As RingCT approaches I think volume has the potential to go much higher.  I have looked at ZCash very closely and still find Monero much more attractive. If a reasonable percentage of the people hearing about ZCash this summer prior to its release perform due diligence, I think a lot of new interest in Monero will result.

To be honest, and you know I am the biggest Monero maximalist out there, it looks like our vertical ascent may have over-extended itself a tad.  I think it's not unthinkable we may face a consolidation/correction period where we bounce off some support.  When people in the Polo troll box start saying things like 'the Monero scam pump is over! ha ha' then you know we are ready to resume launch.

His reasons probably include the ones mentioned here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4bu212/zcash_enables_the_highest_level_of_privacy/d1ceq3f

Don't you mean when people (friends) ask you about it? Historically that was a pretty good indicator, means it is going into (or already is in) bubble mode.

I could do that.  It would be easy.  I could take that sum and bully down the bids mercilessly and put up bully walls to incite panic, and then buy back cheaper.  I estimate if I did it skillfully I could probably turn those 400k Aeon into 500k. 
 
But I won't do that.  I will hold those Aeon hard, and continue supporting the community as we go.  It's about more than money for me, and I want people to know that though I am heavily invested in Aeon, I'm not some bully whale who wants to profit off their backs.  I made a loud declaration of support for the Aeon blockchain, backed it up with an acquisition, and now will simply hold the spot.  If/when Aeon moves to Poloniex and there exists an XMR/AEON pair I will provide some liquidity for this, but only as a service to the community with little expectation of profit. 
 
Besides, I noticed upon looking at risto's 'bitcoin rich list' (https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/321265.0) that no known holder of Bitcoin ever held more than 400k-ish of Bitcoin (aside from Satoshi himself).  Some of these people were legendary computer scientists and I feel that it would be foolish for me to ignore their historical precedent.  For some reason, of an asset with approximately 18 to 21 million total tokens, no single entity no matter how rich has ever publicly controlled greater than 400k.  That's good enough for me. 
 
I suspect Monero should be the same (though we would honestly never know).  No single entity should probably seek to control over 400k XMR for long term saving either.  Personally I have significantly less than that at the present, so hell yes I will fight tooth and nail for every single one I can get my hands on, but I wouldn't seek to overdo it. 
 
But what do I know - I'm just some guy, not an oracle.

Not to be pedantic, but you don't "hold" or "control" anything if you leave your entire stash sitting on an exchange.

When you go on a trip and haven't used your travel computer for a while...

I'm currently on a hunt to find the largest single output of all time in a Monero transaction.

My computer is crawling through block by block, and so far (counting down from current height) the record is 100,000 XMR in block 959534. I'm only at 911,000 so I still have many more blocks to go. I've heard there is a 500,000 XMR transaction so let's see where it is!