Looks to me like the only buyers now are the institutions trading between themselves to make it appear there is still a market.
At the last bottom in March 2009 the Dow monthly volume was 50,201,214,976
Last full month, September 2017, the monthly volume was only 6,409,781,760
With 7 trading days left in October, so far the volume is only 4,348,628,992
IMO they can drag out the time to make it correspond with some event if they so choose but price is pretty well topping. DYODD