If the price remains relatively stable within a range.

Is someone propping it up? No. It is the consensus that is propping it up.
Consensus discovery takes time.
Perhaps you found out that he hasn't discovered yet.
For example, I found that Musk just happened to visit the factory.
And just happened to find the bad one among so many devices.
Just happened to spray paint a stick figure.
The pictures of the day shift construction team just happened to arrive in the executives' hands.
And just in time, the executives sent the picture back to Musk.
Just as Musk posted the stick figure images on X.
You see, everything happened just right and naturally.