This is completely normal. Rise above 450 ten tomorrow it goes back to under the 450 dollar. It's predictable and there is no clear indicator there is a break out coming.
The ceiling seems to be $470. When it gets there, the blocks get full (people moving their coins to the exchanges), a backlog develops, the blocksize debate kicks off again and people start selling.
That $470 ceiling has been broken. We will see $470 to be the floor for the next few months or longer.
The $470 might not be the floor any more. The new floor of the bitcon price could be around $500.
The price of bitcoin is quite strong now. If the price does not hit $600 in the next few days and keep on consolidating, it will not go below $550.