I appreciate this explanation. Especially your point about patience. I was assuming profit taking would have mostly happened by now which is why I was finding the numbers I was seeing (June 24 being the 2nd highest month of ETF inflows on record) as suspicious.
also realize that the ETFs are only a small % of the total spot market. There has been an active spot market for a long time now. The ETFs have an effect. You can see that in an ATH before the halving. But there is a lot more going on in the market than just ETFs.