XMR is booty cheeks

As the fiat empire is still trying to suppress its price that's unfortunately true. Also they will need to decide soon if they want to give up price suppression or easy pleb access via CEX.

But I was looking at the signal within the noise and that is that Monero often goes against the whole cryptocurrency market including BTC. Everything up, Monero down. Everything down, Monero up.

That's something to be expected for actual money. Hence why the signal here is that the market treats Monero as nascent money.