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After looking at a lot of crypto exchanges, have you ever thought about price manipulation in exchange? Have you ever experienced or seen it. Share your experiences and I want to hear a whisper from you. Thank you.

Yes Surely there is great manipulation by a group of experts in this field for example currency ZCL,If you follow the events you have experienced.Most of the projects listed on the market Its purpose is to manipulate society in different ways that can not be counted.

You are an old member of Bitcointalk , it cant be the firs time you have heard of this .
In fact, most of the cryto market is completely fake.
One of many many articles addressing this issue: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitwise-calls-out-to-sec-95-of-bitcoin-trade-volume-is-fake-real-market-is-or

I have seen exchanges to manipulate the volume, it is well known to everybody. Exchange do it very often to bring them more volume and make them bigger one.
However, I have seen DeepOnion volume to be manipulated seriously in Kucoin, although Kucoin is one of my favorite exchange, I don't like this at all.

I haven't seen it but some of the forum members actually noticed and reported it. There were also articles that exposed it so everyone should be aware of that especially those who have been trading with crypto's for years. One example of the manipulation is when unforeseen halting of transactions and sort of 'maintenance' comes out. Notice it, when there are maintenance like what happened to Coinbase the price of bitcoin plunges.

there isn't much manipulation from my perspective but some people have reported that they have seen it in the past. Some of them do it to bring more investors to their website, increasing volume even if it's fake can bring more people in.

I've read a thread a while ago about manipulating the volumes in the exchange sites and it shows that there are fewer people who are actually trading. There are proofs that are shown that there is a possibility that it is being manipulated but about the price, I haven't seen anything about it and experienced it before. And if there is any, I wouldn't feel it since I am not losing that much before.

There has been several cases of price manipulation as well as volume manipulation by exchanges. Sometimes they even co-operate with coin pumpers and hold the deposit of coin which is being pumped. If you just see prices of coins in coinmarketcap in exchanges sections, some exchanges mostly have an insane price for the same thing.

whether i have thought about it? unfortunately one is constantly confronted with it and there are only very
few exchanges without these processes. although even there it can be only it is better veiled. partly it is so
obvious but we as users cannot defend ourselves against it :-X

For an experienced trader, the market is manipulation. For ordinary people the market is where you can buy and sell.

Market manipulation has been part and parcel of nearly all Cryptos exchanges. The truth is just that some exchanges are more fair when it come to price manipulation. Exchanges have been accused of fake volume in the past and some of them are still actually parading fake volume and in real sense manipulating the market. I don't there is any way out of manipulation but rather crypto market will keep going in that direction.

Not only in crypto. I know a little about market manipulations in the stock market. When I came to crypto, I saw many similar things here. It is enough to read about the stock market to understand what is happening in the cryptocurrency market.
Cheating volumes, P & D are the most common phenomena on the market that will always be one way or another.

I have heard speculations that Bitmex is manipulating their leverage trading. Who knows if this is true but also you can´t disprove it and that means that this could be really possible. And they also make fraud with trading volumes.

I think most of the exchanges are doing this. You'll notice that price of BTC on coinmarketcap is $11,800 but the price is different on each exchanges. CMC is just averaging the price from the date they get from the total exchanges. Prices are manipulated in order to make its price pushed up despite the amount of BTC volume which is obviouslt too few but for those greedy who think arbitraging is easy, they end up going to the exchange.

This is the reason why centralized exchanges do not have any future. As soon as people realize advantages of DEXs will migrate into these exchanges.
Privacy, owneship of your keys, no regulations and manipulations should be motivation for people to make a change.

for manipulation I experience it very often and most manipulation problems are crowdfunding tokens, especially tokens that still have dex are very prone to manipulation, and I also often benefit from manipulation, additionally finding an exchange that does this immediately shunned and monitored

There are exchanges that I have great doubts about. For example, there are very active bots in Kucoin. And I think they can somehow create market manipulation. Many other exchanges have the same thing.

Manipulation happens regularly at various levels. Keep in mind that market making is not manipulation. Exchanges frequently make micro buys and swing price in certain directions and this is done intentionally to try to get a market reaction because ultimately their main goal is to increase trade volume.

OP, your title suggests that cryptocurrency exchanges are manipulating the price with in their platform. You may want to edit that.

I only see the "manipulation" by these big holders when they are also trading the coins that I am monitoring. It is actually fun to see when one tries to pump it and there's another trader trying to block it.  

These days not only but from the beginning of the exchanges they are manipulating the funds of the investors in various way. The idle crypto that are lying in the exchanges for more than enough they convert it to fiat and lending the various parties. Also, whenever they can't fulfil the demand of the investors funds they are taking time lots.

It's very common.  In fact, it's hard to find an exchange that doesn't do it.
There are the really sneaky ones like hotbit that manipulate their own volume to appear like there is a lot of trading going on.
But the more common thing you will find is bots, either hired by projects to increase volume or by individuals/groups.
It's very easy to spot.
Take any coin that has a lot of action and test it out, put up a buy or sell order and if someone is running a bot, immediately there will be other buy/sell orders.
They often bury yours meaning they are trying to pump or dump the price.

Really, although these exchanges dominate everything, the future is going to be in decentralized exchanges and peer 2 peer services.
That's what crypto was built for.
There will soon be a time when we wonder why we bothered with all of this nonsense in the first place

of course, it exists. There are manipulations on almost all exchanges and if you will understand which coin the exchange uses for its manipulations you can make good money on it

We know that many exchanges manipulate their volume, that is not speculation that is a fact, they do this because as we know traders want liquidity when they put their money in a coin since that means that it is easier to get in and out of their positions, so to be the exchange with the most volume is something that every exchange wants but some exchanges are willing to fake their volumes to get that first position, but now some sites like coingecko are taking actions against them and have developed new formulas to rank exchanges that do not rely only on volume.

You would have been specific with what you termed manipulation, there could be price manipulations of certain coins but this has little or nothing to do with the exchange itself or the owners, how about pump and dump groups, I have seen a particular active one that obviously pumps coins on Binance

Of course, I agree that any accusation against this or that stock exchange must be supported by at least some facts.  But nevertheless, no one can deny that the administration of certain people still uses its capabilities to manipulate prices on its platforms.  Perhaps this does not affect the weight of the cryptocurrency market, but nonetheless manipulation occurs.

Manipulation on faking volumes is one of the best example on this.
There are so many exchanges who fake the volumes even pump the trading.
Have you seen an exchange which do have many trades even you can't see that on the buy or sell orders?

I think it is no longer something that is not known to the public. many people know and understand that almost all exchanges manipulate the trade that is in their exchange. with the aim of making trade increase. but if an exchange that already has a large trade I think it's unnecessary.

Yeah, it does happen happen a lot especially on most of the shitty exchanges. They create fake volume of transactions to make them seem. Again, you will see those unknown tokens with huge volume of trade to manipulate the price. That manipulation is done mainly by the coins support or the creator themselves to increase both the price and trade volume of the coin.

Everybody already knows that each exchange has its own community and its own secret groups of cryptocurrency users, which can carry out certain manipulations with those Or other cryptocurrencies.  This has long been your opinion of professional people on the forum and in other media.  Therefore, it makes no sense to object to the existence of such a problem.

It's probably happening. But we can't know for sure. Since exchanges keep this information secret) Let's wait for the dismissed employees. So they then reveal to us all the secrets of the exchanges)

Take a look at the biggest exchanges and DEX. It's just a bunch of fake volume to attract people and why would they stop it if it works.

Visit any exchange with a trade history and you will see crazy numbers and the same crazy deposits, just in, out and repeat. Real exchanges that don't participate in this like Switchdex.ag proceeds to get ignored by the community because of the lack of volume, yet they will go to a "big" dex and have their order stand there for more than a day without buyers.

Polineix manipulated clams to rip off the insurance fund then they took all the stolen ?Monero and dumped it so I'd stay outta that exchange. Its owned by GodmanBallsacks which is nothing but institutional money trying to destroy the scene.

Sure they can. We cant look into the backend so it can be manipulated if the team behind the exchange really wants. Beside the price a exchange earns on the amount of trades.

I have been trading quite a while and I notice in some exchanges they do have quite in common and it's wash trading. And you could tell there is a price manipulation when in the trade section showed sell and buy price are not in the buy or sell order. Some exchanges are using bots to manipulate the price and if you want to take advantage and hoping to make a profit. You need to analyze the chart and the price on when to pump and dump.

I know for sure that each exchange fakes trading volumes in order to attract as many traders as possible. There is no exchange that could boast of its correctness.

Every time I enter exchange and see how orders are executed, I think that this is all the work of robots that work in accordance with the algorithm that is programmed in them. I am also convinced that on most crypto exchanges trading volumes are fake and they simply hold us up for fools

If it is about the price, it can be. But the fact by manipulation is probably about the trading volume and activities. Some exchanges may use the fake trading volume in order to attract more investors or traders to use the exchange. Normally, it may not be a bad idea. But, of course, we must be more careful whether their most trading volume is fake or not. And about the price, sometimes, the team of the exchange probably have chance to manipulate it. Well, who knows exactly. 

Many exchanges manipulate volume etc so as to attract more users. While most exchanges are perfect in doing this others aren't; that is, in most exchanges you will see how bot influence price thereby making trading almost difficult.
After having a bitter experience with a certian exchange, I tend to overlook what is displayed on CMC and thus visiting the exchange in particular to be sure there is a good level of trading activities before sending any coin.

This is quite true to most of the crypto exchanges even if they are the top ones in their field.
Actually, it is not only the exchange itself but the project owners of that coin.
To portray that their coin is doing well in the trading aspect, they will place long list of their buy/sell orders to make their coin look dynamic in trading.
But you will see their true color after couple of months or more of trading because they already got tired of doing the same cycle over and over again.

This is actually not a new thing in this space anymore and indeed it is really disheartening for this space owing to the way it tends to go mainstream. Most exchanges if not all manipulates volume for their own personal gain, which is to convince users or investors that they have what it takes while in reality it is fake. I think it is time CoinMarketCap sets rules to cumb this bad trend before it gets out of hand.

I rarely find price manipulation, but once I saw it in small exchanges and new tokens, price manipulation was done by developers so that traders were interested in buying but I don't think that would last long

Manipulation will continue to occur if there is a bet on the exchange about one coin fluctuation, a clear example is bitmex, short and long on bitmex has a lot of influence on the movement of bitcoin especially if the market is stable or not high volume.

There's manipulation indeed, bot inside the exchange play the role and attract new investors it should be well understood that investment
with crypto needs to be research not to fall with this kind of act, reasons behind this can help the token/coin to have additional investors
those who can take the risk to follow the market from this project can take advantage while those who are not taking time to investigate
will have a higher risk of being caught and be trapped inside.

I have been seeing, you can upload houbi's exchange, there are a few altcoin that have increased more than 10 times since the last few months. They started to have many pump shots since the BTC recovered strongly

It happens maybe because they want their investment exchanges to survive. This is how I see it and I think price manipulation is part the system which makes them some profits. Well, as long as you know this kind tricks then maybe you should be more careful about it.

should you be asking this question? You are a high rank member on bitcointalk and you should know better to teach the junior members not vice versa. There is manipulation not just in cryptocurrency but in the traditional market

Funny as it is but that's the norm in today's crypto market. Exchanges influence or manipulate volume to make it look like they are incredibly helpful without one knowing it is the other way round. Also, the use of bot in most exchanges is nothing to write home about as it is quite terrible. It's right time a decision is taken over these exchanges to limit the harm been done.

Of course! Manipulation on the exchange is one of the components of the market. We are manipulated by exchanges, whales, institutional investors. It is due to this that supply and demand are created.

You should have known this without anyone telling you. Most centralized exchanges, most especially those that use bot,engage in market manipulation. This most times also bring about fake volume on exchanges. It can also happen the other way round, where there will be very low volume, but price is being manipulated and then make it to influence trade on other exchanges.

Manipulation allows exchanges and large players to make a profit. But there is nothing illegal here because there are no cryptocurrency trading rules. What is not forbidden is allowed.

as much as i can tell, the cryptocurrency exchanges are not the place we see manipulations. We see this almost in every sectors including banks. So if there should be any manipulation on cryptocurrency exchanges,  this shouldn't be something to be really worried about.

I do not have any such experience so far in my crypto life. But I have heard that there are so much price manipulation and fake volume done by cryptocurrency exchanges so as to attract as many as traders for their personal gains. I have heard that one of such exchanges is BiteBTC, which is reported to be scamming traders by faking volume and price of coins.

Manipulation of cryptocurrency price is not new specially in the big volume cryptocurrency exchange, aside from wash trading and fake volume also the presence of whales that dictate the particular coin/token price resulting to artificial pump and dump scheme is a clearly basis of price manipulation. thats why be careful cryptocurrency has a lot dirty secrets that everyone should know!

Manipulating is in accordance with the project that currently cannot be invested in several places, so prices that also cannot be made are good prices for our coins

Coinmarketcap was a big news because of not showing us the right data coming from exchanges, manipulation is very rampant until now, notorious of this is Yobit, even dead and shitcoins get pumps in their platform and this results to people losing a lot of money.

it seems that it is a crime or it might be called fraud, when an exchange manipulates the volume of trade, but that is something that usually happens. one of them is to attract traders to trade on the exchanger.

unfortunately, everywhere is only manipulated, lied, pretty, corrected to one's own advantage and so on.
honest are the few and with the majority one is simply led under the carpet. is not only with the exchanges
but generally in the crypto environment so. is because it is about a lot of money. there lose all their moral ::)

Price manipulation in some exchanges is not a new thing unless one is new to the system . There are some exchanges that perpetrate in this act. They even manipulate Volume . I feel the basis of this manipulation is to allow traders and project to get listed in their Platform . We still have some few good exchanges out there that doesnt manipulate volume . Coinex and Binance are the best Exchanger that to me so far.

I have seen some exchange where crypto manipulation by the exchange. Coinbene is one of them in where bots are playing always with the investor and manipulate the peoples money.

Lot of price difference between exchanges but it can't be considered as manipulation but it could lead to the price manipulation if the volume of the exchange is high. But where the manipulation begins it should be from the coinmarketcap site.

For new exchanges I think there is the need to do this to show they are going well with their business. Making it look like they are running good with volumes is part of the marketing. They can't just go to the cryptocurrency meetups and conferences without something to show off to the public like being successful. One day that Coinbene will actually be on the top list if they are just going to continuously do the right thing.

I have seen many online articles and complaints about this matter. many people complaining about the price manipulating and volume manipulating. Actually, some exchanges have very low prices in some tokens than the other exchanges.  If you checked on the internet you will find many of them.

yes, of course every exchange always hopes to get a big profit, one of which they can manipulate market price movements in it so that they can easily benefit from it. manipulating market price movements is very effective to gain profits because as we know cryptocurrency market price movements are very vulnerable to price manipulation that can be done by a group of people or someone who has large capital

Yes i am Agree with you. Many exchange are Manipulating. It is very harmfull for our cryptocurrency market. We should be award from this Manipulation.       

there is a great manipulation indeed.. those exchange with lower volume mostly doing that one, and sometimes they put bot..we cannot remove this manipulation, its a game for those who have money, not only in the exchange in a particular coin as well

Manipulation of prices are different, large and small, I think that everyone has seen them, but not everyone guessed that this manipulation.

Now manipulation is low but few year back major exchange had big manipulation and some of them has higher volume than the actual trading. The worst manipulation was after tether was introduced , one of the big exchange (not saying the name ;)) was minting tether out of thin air and there were news related to it and investigation was done as well.

It is really not funny at all most especially in most exchanges which uses bot to inflate volume. But most times I ask myself, isn't Coinmarketcap aware of all these and take the right action towards these exchanges.
Volume manipulation within exchanges isn't a good one for this space and should be curtailed, no matter the exchange.

Yes, a lot of crypto exchanges manipulate a lot of things including their orders books and trading volume informations, some exchange also go a bit far by placing fake orders on their trading pairs to mislead traders.

Sometimes, I see this kind of manipulation, moreover in the new exchange. They have some curious price charts and when we enter to get in, the price is changing so easily without any trading activities yet. Besides, there is also the fake one of the trading volume. Do I only think about it? But of course, I'm not sure about it and sorry if I'm mistaken,

I think they are kind of right, I think it should be done too. I mean think about it, you probably know some coins that rarely ever get any volume, they are done and nobody trades them, if you have 50 thousand of that coin whereas the daily volume is like maybe 5 thousand at best, you will have to spend a lot of time and lose a lot of its value until you can manage to sell it, what normally would make you 0.3 bitcoin if you could sell it at market price will take you a month and would return 0.15 at best.

So, as you can see that is the small scale problems with low volume, when it comes to top of the list like bitcoin and ethereum all exchanges should make these kinds of fake volumes so it looks like bitcoin is still interesting or even if its interesting make it more exciting.

Around here I saw many many complaints and discussions about the price manipulating and volume manipulating of the crypto exchanges. Sometimes different exchanges have huge different about in the above criteria. And the discussions in their official telegram groups admins try to avoid the question about those manipulations.

During this time I have never thought that in exchange for crypto. What I've found is that when I haven't received the coin, the price is high. When it has been paid, the price drops in the exchange.

Listen, this is a normal market situation. Because this is a new market and volatility should be big on it. Teaching to trade better.

Now they are manipulating not only the exchanges, but the entire market, manipulating people with the help of news that are published on the Internet

The cryptocurrency market is simply controlled by manipulation of exchanges as well as the whole market. The big whales determine the price of coins and they are the ones responsible for the pump and dumb.

There are certain exchanges that still maintain their good standard and they do not waver. Whereas some exchanges have been reported to engage in mischievous act, which is true. So you have to be selective.
You can also easily recognise those that truly manipulate. So the best you can do for yourself is not to go close.

Can you please name some which don't manipulate the volume?
Almost all the exchange we know, or the common exchange like Binance, Okex, Huobi, all of them use fake volume to be listed on the top so that people use their site. There's not a single exchange which don't use fake volume I think.

To be honest, I and a couple more people, adherents of one project, noticed a strange activity on one fairly well-known stock exchange. To our surprise, the conclusions about false orders and false volumes came to each of our company independently. Therefore, based on this case, I am sure that even the most top exchanges can easily and easily manage the market, pump or dump the price of a coin.
P.S. Since there are no particular facts, therefore, the name of the exchange and the coin, which, in my opinion, was manipulated, I will not say.

There are multiple ways to manipulate prices and it is not only in these crypto exchanges, but it is also happening where almost anything is traded. For instance in the stock or forex markets where events or news can change the price of different currencies. Which means that control if such information can manipulate prices in certain times or region. In my opinion the manipulation of prices is not entirely a bad thing as it can help certain currencies to pump their price.

I think it will always exist. So far, we also think that some exchanges may use some manipulations in order to gain more and more members of the exchanges. This may be one of the strategies to attract people to make an account, trade, invest, and also other activities in the exchange. That is why we must be careful. Analyze first whether they manipulate the price higher or not, including the manipulation of the trading volume. It is also important to know whether the exchange is listed on CMC or not.

Just recently, I learned a new fraudulent scheme from exchanges. They are opening IEO, but they are cheating the project team by artificially increasing money counter. Then the exchange simply sells coins (which were not actually purchased) at a very low price! DUUUMP!

Many articles write that many exchangers use bots to make the transaction value look great. With a transaction value that looks large, the exchanger can set a large listing fee price for the new project. Price manipulation can happen because the cryptocurrency market has no clear regulations

There has been a few instances of price control in cryptocurrency market, just as volume control by exchanges Here and there.
they even co-work with coin pumpers and hold the store of coin which is being pumped.
On the off chance that you simply observe prices of coins in coinmarketcap in exchanges areas, a few exchanges for the most part have a crazy price for something very similar

That's always present whenever there's Opportunities for this kinds of teams who's familiar on how to work with newbies and those investors who don't know or don't take time to investigate well regarding to certain project, better to be aware to avoid making any participations with this kind of business.

I know of news manipulation, but i have not heard of exchange manipulation

I have never heard of price manipulation, and I don’t see how that can happen, because when it comes to the value of a coin, it has to be uniform with other exchanges too and with the popular coinmarketcap price, except maybe some countries that are witnessing arbitrage.

For now, the only think I know of exchanges is the issue of volume manipulation, and that is common with new exchanges because they sort of use it as promotional tools to attract users to their platform pending the time they get the real volume that is require making such exchange continue to run smoothly. For price manipulation, what reason would they have to do that? I do not see any, so I don’t know if there are exchanges that does that, and I have never come across any with such.

That could be true because we don't know the truth but I am sure that the exchanges use bots as you said. Besides of the exchanges, I think many traders also use the bot to trade or to moves the price if the volume is not too big. Although I don't see the reality of this, I am sure that the manipulation is happening in the exchanges. But we don't have to bother with that because as long as we can trade with right and we can get the profit, then we should let it go. At least, if they cheat the traders, soon or later it will appear to the public or traders so they will leave those exchanges which manipulate the price because that is not fair to them.

Yes I have already seen it. The name of exchange is c-cex, the first trading platform in crypto thar I've every used. The coin that I trade there are shitcoins and I can see that they are being manipulated by on or more trader/s. You can be dominant than them if you trade more than they do which is impossible if you're not rich and you're just starting. On the other hand, altcoins like ETH, XRP, and etc. there weren't able to be manipulated because they are listed in a lot of exchanges.

it definitely pisses you off. because indeed we can't avoid it, some exchanges do it to attract purchases and increase their trade. especially for new exchanges, we very often see that happen.

It seems like there is a lot of manipulation happening. I have experienced buying coins and I see a good sales chart. I try to buy but the price goes down to the bottom and some when the price goes back up. And it seems like it's only played by some people. And the price after the high rise then experienced a very sharp decline and until now the price is still below and not moving.

I've seen it, usually it happens to new tokens / coins and doesn't have a strong community, so developers deliberately manipulate prices so that many people are interested in buying their tokens

We don't really know if it is the exchanges, bots or peoples who are manipulating the market. But cryptocurencies are certainly manipulated. You can only try to guess what they are going to do.

I experienced that when I trade on Yobit, they are using a bot to manipulate the price, you must be very fast and updated to keep track of what coins that they are going to manipulate next time, they are not the only one Cryptopia and other top exchanges are doing this, it's one of the method they employ to continue to make profit, but newbie or those who can't follow will have a hard time catching up.

Probably bots are used by all exchanges or major players. Experienced traders know these points and adapt to trading on their favorite exchanges.

I think it's not just about the old bitcointalk member, but I want to find experiences that many people might experience for now. If indeed the exchange is proven to be fake (the crypto market) ,is why there is still a price and many people trade there? Of course this will frighten new users to start trading crypto?

Well definitely, even in big exchange there are big manipulators and we have to be aware on that.
Bitcoin is the most invested coin in the crypto and I think all over exchanges there's a manipulation happening, whales can do that and as long as it's not illegal to manipulate the price using their power, they will continue to do that as they benefit in every action they do.

When they pump the price, sometimes it would cause FOMO, when spread FUD the price dump, if we are aware of that possibility, we will never get caught on it, and we will be same going forward since we will not be affected with this manipulation.

You have to remember the scandal where it turned out that 70% of trading on the exchanges were fake. Stock exchange and admitted it. There are many ways that we do not know and I still think that artificial volume rise continues.

I did not experienced it yet but I already have an idea from the article that I already read about manipulation of exchange. And it is not impossible because all we know that we are on the crypto world so that means all of our action here in crypto world can be manipulate because of we are transact online and we have a great technology right that can change and make all things possible.

Isn’t it how binance became so popular? They pumped tokens which they listed. Meanwhile people thought it was a magic place with a “to-the-moon” button.

There has been a some instances of which the price control just as volume control by exchanges.
Once in a while they even co-work with coin pumpers and hold the store of coin which is being pumped. On the off chance that you simply observe prices of coins in coinmarketcap in exchanges segments, a few exchanges for the most part have a crazy price for something very similar

I saw many times when exchange takes a coin/token than start play with price, making unreal growth and people starting to register the exchange, but deals there are  not real

FYI, POLO is now a scam exchange. run by institutional fiat.
Dumping seized coins.
Complete raiders mentality.
Clams dump was a scam and Monero dump was an attack.

I will not mention exchange that doing this stuff. I can always say there are probably possible price manipulation whenever I do some trades at a certain exchange. Well, the more traders are at a hype of a long or short entry, the more liquidation it may performed and the price manipulation is so obvious. A crystal clear the whales are behind the exchange's price movements.

I havent noticed such a thing, though some of the members of this forum have in the past recent years. To further understand the topic, I read an article related to the manipulation of cryptocurrency exchanges when it comes to a coin's price. It says that exchanges are in it for the consistently declining volume. This leads to lower total fee revenue for exchanges, and an incentive to manipulate the price in order to earn revenue through liquidations rather than trading fees. Another one is the exponential Increase in leveraged positions. Both leveraged shorts and leveraged longs are at or near record levels. Shorts especially have gone from 8K outstanding in January to 33K right now, a whole tripling in outstanding positions.

But some times you can take the advantage from the bot. I see bot already used anywhere by any traders or even exchange sites to create a crowded market.
Those traders will always put major as their favorite consider about the fact that a huge volume is the main reason for bot to be worked perfectly.

You can use it when you understand how to manage well, bot have advantages and disadvantages only those who knows how to take their edges
can bring out something good from their results, you just need to manage your strategy well.

using bots are helpful like if your lazy to trade or busy bots can help you out but ive read that some users are complaining about bots they say that bots are  manipulating the market but id say that its not the bots fault but its the whales  . whales are still powerful than a regular trader and whales can manipulate the market the most  .  manipulation can also be your friend because whenever they manipulate the price to go down we can bought more coins along with it   but if they do the opposite , we can also sell at high  .

I haven’t experienced anything like that, but I suspect that they do it to gain more profit just like anyone else in trading, they might do it in a manipulative way but surely most of popular exchange site use strategic power to avoid losing their legitimacy and assets.

Many articles review how exchangers manipulate transaction volumes. And I think an exchanger can just manipulating prices even though it hasn't been proven much. By manipulating transaction volumes, exchanger hopes to attract new members to make transaction at that exchanger because their income depends on the percentage of real transaction value

It's very confusing, when we want to trade to take advantage. One thing that is still a question for me, why is it allowed? I once had experience, when I wanted to sell and put a price there was a movement that seemed to provoke me to keep abreast of the price and when we chased prices also continued to fall. Even though the latest transactions also show that price. I think this is a strange thing.

I have not experienced it, of course it should be watched out. Well, this is where the need for good regulation to run properly.

Yes, there are too many price manipulations with exchanges. Wash trading is the order of the day, even some exchanges we all know have low volumes relatively showcase fake volumes. Coinmarketcap is forming alliance with some projects to curb this, also coingecko tried coming up with something to reduce such fake volumes. Well some exchanges have proven to be a little bit free from this like Binance, Kucoin, Huobi, OKEX.

No need to create alliances, need to change the algorithms for which changes are made to the CMC. In most cases, the market is manipulated not by exchanges, but by coin's teams (not taking into account major projects - BTC, ETH, etc.). And the CMC is not the "last resort", there are analogues a Cryptocompare, for example.

many exchanger are manipulated their trade volume and liquidity, that's why few month ago coinmarketcap warn few exchange to give real data for stored in coinmarketcap and few exchange do this manipulation

it's something normal if exchange market made a fake volumes or fake prices . the manipulated it by using bot.  They usually make it for attract a new user or investor to do trading (buy and sell or saving their asset) on their market.

80 percent of the exchanges have not real volumes. not just a few, but a majority. By creating non-existing volumes, they want to attract new traders to their platforms.

What do you mean whisper? Manipulation on volumes, prices are being done by exchanges. There's no questioning for that. They are actually paying some sites to fake the volume of their coin for investors to invest on their platform such as CMC.

Also, I would like to add the manipulation of whales. Whales are very dangerous in cryptocurrency. Many new investors fell into whales trap. I don't know how it works but this includes manipulation of prices.

You have experimented it but you did not notice, the manipulation of an exchange volume is felt when you try to sell your coins in an exchange and there are no buyers for hours and you wonder why when there is such a huge volume, the reason is not that you set an unrealistic price, it is just that most of that volume is fake and no one is there to buy your coins, then you get desperate and try to sell them for an even lower price and finally you get what you want but now the exchange can do some arbitrage and sell your coins for a more expensive price and multiply their profits even further at your expense.

Most exchanges nowadays manipulate trades which is very unethical and disappointing . I have hard similar experience in 2 different concurrency exchange. Most of these exchanges doesnt have much liquidity. They manipulate their trading volume to attract traders which is very deceitful .I have learnt my lessons  and sticking on 2 exchanges which Binance  and Coinex.

read news about coinmarketcap warned few exchange beause they don't give real data about trade volume and exhange liquidty.
many exchange are manipulate exchange data like i said

I have seen and experienced it first hand. Within that exchange it was terrible, because I saw a good volume via CMC and on getting to the exchange it was bots at work. Also, most exchange manipulate their volume for the sake of attracting more users, but this is wrong totally and not worthy of a space like this crypto space. This issue of manipulation needs to be tackled.

Well, are you trusting CMC until now? With these kinds of manipulation? Are you still trusting cmc?

Some exchanges do fake price to lure traders and get them hook in their exchange, Bitebtc a notorious scamming exchange is well known for this deadly act and afterward freeze users account for a manufactured violation of their policy which is a blatant falsehood.

Yeah, the biggest exchanges according coinmarketcap website with pretty high fake volume are well known for manipulation and other shady behavior.

Oh yeah. about 0.8 BTC was frozen on my account while I was trying to withdraw my money from the exchange BiteBTC. I think they are pumping some coins on their exchange so that people start deposit money to them

beware of exchanges that move abnormally like that. sometimes there really is the value of coins that are so far from those circulating in other exchanges. of course it makes people interested in trading there because of the huge profits, but if it has happened as you have, what can we do?

Manipulation is possible specially to these exchanges which is really prone on such thing.We have seen about wash trading of Exchangers where it does mean they are faking out volume for attracting new traders or investors to use up the the platform.You can spot it out if your dealing with bots.

There are some gossips that Binance is buying back tokens that were previously listed on Binance launchpad to pump the price up and get more investors in next project on launchpad.  ;)

just know few crypto exchanger are manipulating their volume trade, because exchanger need manipulate the vollume for gain new user and used their exchange and increased transaction in exchanger

Well, shits do happen in cryptocurrency world, and many people with their many strategies in creating things that will make them earn money, I have heard of price manipulation in exchanges too, but I don’t know exactly how it works or plays out, and their motive behind manipulating price.

If it was for volume, that is understandable, it is mostly done by exchanges who are new to the market, and would want to do everything possible to attract people to them, and for the news manipulation, that one is the major tool used by whales to pump the price of a particular coin, but these type of pump usually does not last, because in the end, people would have no use for the project product, which will make the value not to be sustained and eventually dumped, if not dumped first by the whale himself.

The price manipulation can be done in a lot of ways. Just like everyone believed that USDT was part of the increase (I am not really sure about that ). It happens, and there are lots of ways that it do happens… just like someone once said that the problem we are having is that people are not treating cryptocurrency as a means of payment, instead they are seeing as an speculative asset. People can even put orders and cancel them before they are finalized. This will make it seem like there are higher demand and will cause the market price to go up.

That is really common as well, if an altcoin that is not well known begins to skyrocket some exchanges will go into maintenance, but for the time being anyone that has money invested in that coin can do nothing and that is a terrible position to find yourself in since you can lose your opportunity to sell your coins for a good price, this is why we need decentralized exchanges to become more popular since several of those tricks will not be possible on them.

Virtually all exchanges involves in price manipulation for example when you place an order in some exchanges the bot place another order cheaper than your own order, that is typical example of manipulation going on some exchanges.

On a better note, the manipulations in exchanges nowadays is getting out of hand which will get one asking if really it is worthy of an industry or a space like Cryptocurrency. Most exchanges nonchalantly does it without putting their users at heart thus making trading difficult and unfriendly. One exchange deceived me with that, I had no other other option than to withdraw ASAP, hope not to visit that exchange again.

Obviously, the most of crypotocurrency Exchanges are manipulating the price of tokens on their platform by using bots. There is no regulation at the moment, so they can do what they want.

Exchanges are known to have fake volumes. I think this is something that exchanges use in order for the prices to be constantly moving. Bots are employed for this strategy. This is also a strategy to attract traders. Traders will not be trading on exchange platforms that have low volumes. Their buy and sell calls will have a hard time getting filled up.

I have had such experiences in my crypto life that started some three years ago. A crypto exchange named BiteBTC robbed me out of two BTC by not allowing me withdrawal. It has faked volume and price of coins just to attract new traders and prey on them. It is still in operation. Stay alert.

It's a scam exchange and there are many people who have warned about it. Sorry about your case but I believe you will never be able to withdraw that money on your wallet. I also have a few friends who have lost all the money there

I've never experienced it or seen it firsthand, I think crypto currency exchange can't be manipulated because it's based on the provisions. if there really is something like that, I think the crypto's future will end soon because there is no trust from investors.

People have been saying this for years, but scammers always find a way to comeback and create another exchange in the case the one they are currently operating gets such a poor reputation, we must remember that any form of centralization in a market that is trying to be decentralized will always be a point of failure, and the most popular exchanges are centralized, we need a good DEX to finally appear and to have enough volume so you can exchange in it more than a few hundreds of dollars worth of coins.

well its seem pretty good,I know a little about market manipulations in the stock market. When I came to crypto, I saw many similar things here. It is enough to read about the stock market to understand what is happening in the cryptocurrency market

liquidity support by the exchange is also considered to be manipulation?

I haven't had the first-hand experience about it yet a portion of the bounty group I am a member to have had such and other individuals were warned about trading on the exchange. There were additional articles that uncovered it so everybody ought to know about that it the individuals who have been exchanging with crypto's for a considerable length of time. One case of the control is when unanticipated stopping of exchanges and kind of 'upkeep' turns out. Notice it, when there are support like what happened to Coinbase the cost of bitcoin dives.

Capital NO, but we can't run away from the facts that most if these exchanges are big holders of the larger market when it come to cryptocurrency, so, they are most responsible for the manipulation of the general market. Also, there are individual whales that can also cause a manipulation but with little effect.

Manipulation was possible and it was happening, I am also wondering, why and how come, the exchanges maintenance always happens when the cryptos were on bullish or uptrend, and the worst case was, you cannot access the exchange sites or you cannot login.

On yobit constantly they spend pamp to get rich on hamsters. There wielding robot, it is hardly whales, there is clearly exchange itself is doing the manipulation

In all areas related to money, manipulations always happened, the media manipulated the minds of viewers, large corporations having a monopoly in the market manipulated the prices of their products, oil companies manipulated the prices of oil, politicians generally manipulate people every day. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the volume of trades on crypto exchanges are manipulated. You just need to take this into account and use it to your advantage.

Manipulation is not a new thing on cryptocurrency exchanges, everyone including the newbies knows about this. There are quite some hidden facts about some cryptocurrency exchanges which we yet Don't know. Price manipulation is just one thing that was uncovered

It could happen with the small exchange because the whales can move the price to the price they want. I don't think that they can moves the price in the big exchanges as they will need bigger money to moves the price. But that can be possible if in the big exchanges, there are many big whales join and stay, they can move the price in a short time, but they cannot make the price to stay at the price they want because it will depend on all of the traders.

I have never experienced anything like that (stock manipulation). in my opinion, it can be done very well as long as the perpetrator has a very large amount of funds going up that community or individual. I hope this never happened.

Actually, I don't really understand, but this might happen. Just like the fake trading volume that sometimes occurs in several exchanges. Regarding price manipulation, maybe this is also aimed at attracting more registrars into the exchange.

I read a news yesterday on cointelegraph.com about a young sophomore who charges as much as $15k to boost cryptocurrency exchanges trade volume on coinmarketcap. This is a revelation that came after several suspicions of many cryptocurrency exchanges faking their trade volume to rank high on Cmc and attract listings and high listing fees.

i heard some rumors about it that some of the exchanges are faking the buyers amount just to fake traders that a lot of buyers are coming in. Therefore, they can be able to profit when the buyers get in and once the buyers already bought, they will sell.

I read a news article yesterday if a 20yr old guy who charges $15,000 to for volume for projects, the truth is that most exchanges are not even aware of this or just simply turn a blind eye to it, that does not mean that they are the ones doing it.

Exchanges are very much aware about it. Most of the exchanges are faking the trading volume to charge high token listing fee and IEO listing fee. I hope you must have read about Idax and how they scammed one project by charging very high fee for launching IEO by showing the fake trading volume statistics. Read this article to know more https://medium.com/@info_85454/idax-pro-scammed-crypto-projects-for-up-to-5-000-000-usd-c2d10a0dd14e

Not only new investors, but traders who have long been in the cryptocurrency trade can experience the same thing. But they still persevered to make a profit in trading, including me. This week is very difficult to find profits, speculation is not right.

I know most small cryptocurrency exchanges have volume manipulation on their exchange, or fake volumes.
But price manipulation, is something that you can't simply manipulate in my opinion.
You need huge amount of coins to manipulate the price, some pump and dump groups does that.

I dont think that is new in crypto but taker and maker are all greedy, as the market is only working in their favour to enrich themselves but on a normal day we should see a plain ground playing .

Many exchange are doing manipulation why some CEO are also the king of shilling to pump their token or coin for no reason in the market which get back to manipulation.

Well, I joined into some pump and dump group in telegran but haven't tried to participate in any of their even. And in that way, I bet that a manipulation and getting small investors to get rekt. Well, thats how it works you just need to ensure to be observant in the market to gain some.

Price manipulation is possible especially on the exchange platforms since every thing related to IT and computing can be coded and feedback will be elicited as desired. Exchanges can set bots to make buy walls which will favor a particular price trend for a particular coin but note this, traders contribute largely to the price determination of a coin on the market.

One more manupulation is wash trading.
This is making fake volumes for some coins. Bot trading in circle "buy sell buy sell"
In regulated exchanges its restrickted.

Of course most of them are manipulating with prices, thats actually how their job:) Exchanges is like the engine of the market, they move the market. They own and process big capitals and of course they speculate with cryptocurrencies, how u think they earn the money, only on fees and comissions?) Its normal working process..

Manipulating the price makes it constant pump is an manipulation. Similar to what Matic did when it was 18 times higher than the IEO price since it was listed on exchange

The manipulation of the Market has been an integral part of almost all Cryptos exchanges. The fact of the matter is only that a few exchanges are all the more reasonable when it come to value manipulation. Exchanges have been blamed for phony volume before and some of them are still really marching phony volume and in genuine sense controlling the market. I don't there is any exit from manipulation yet rather crypto market will prop up toward that path

yes, this is a public secret. Moreover, many shit exchanges falsify all their activities. As you mentioned, there is a fake volume. In my experience, in some less good exchanges, the price difference in the order book is quite large, when placing prices at the highest limit, the list always sold below, I think this is also a bot game, only used to make it look to trade.

Just so you know exchanges are independent of this. If there's any manipulation on these exchanges, It's the users that are doing it. That's why It is much more easier to manipulate prices on smaller exchanges as the volumes are tiny. It's on those kinda exchanges you see coin/token doing a 1000% move in less than 24hours. On bigger exchanges, It can be manipulated but It's not easy and would require more funds.

We have all witnessed this recently. For example, by removing binary pairs such as binance dent / btc npxs / btc, it has dealt a major blow to these coins. Both coins decreased by more than 30% and their volumes were almost zero. I think the only reason they do this is to manipulate a quality project, especially dent. Because there was no other reason why dent would fall so much

Nothing new as this happened all the time. Fake volume, fake price, bots and so on, manipulation at its fullest potential.Did you actually believe that exchanges are having that amount of volume per 24 hours ? Think again mate, nothing is what it seems and nothing will change anytime soon as the party won't stop. Be glad that pump and dumps don't happen like they did before or at least it happens in low ranked coins which is the good part.

Many pump and dump groups are manipulating the price on some exchanges by giving signal to buy or sell.
But the manipulation occurred usually only temporary before it goes back to normal price.
I think some peoples who have a big amount of coins can manipulate the price too, the whales.

Wash trading is the way exchanges scam users. Last week there was report about exchanges using wash trading and create fake volume.
According to the report there were two well known exchanges, Okex and Huboi.
More than 60% of volume at Huobi and more than 90% of volume at Okex reported as fake volume.
Okex CEO claimed that they can prove at least 10% of their volume is real at twitter.
All exchanges must be regulated and must be easily reachable buy users.

I not manipulation of exchange cryptocurrency, but I ever get with coin have higher different price between sell and buy order, I found sell order more higher than buy order but is not manipulation or cryptocurrency exchange market, just waiting how much price do you want to sell or how much do you want to buy.

Trading is manipulated almost on every exchange. They are creating trading robots and if you see a bunch of buy orders with a total sum of 20 tokens, it is clear that somebody is manipulating the price. For example 50 orders, for 0,01 tokens each in a price range from 0,0001 to 0,1 USD.

Market manipulation is an integral part of most of the exchanges. I've read in one article that the most notable manipulations were is OKEx, which is found to manipulate the trading volume of all of their top 30 traded token pairs. Price manipulation is real, and there is nothing we can do about it.

The market is still very small and there are practically no volumes, people with big money can easily manage small cryptocurrencies.

I think almost all exchanges have done fake volumes. Not only in crypto, in forex or binary trade too. Maybe this way they can attract traders to buy these coins or to gain massive traders to join the exchange. But on the other hand, this is like a crime because it has deceived traders. Yes, even if the choice is in each hand, it's still a crime.

Almost all crypto exchange manipulate their volume and even has bots to make their volume high for marketing purposes. The higher their volume is the higher the potential that traders will be using their platform and many coins would choose to pay their platfrom to get listed. This is not a new issue, I am wondering why you have been here in this forum for a long time and it seems it is the first time you have heard or even noticed it.

I read a article about that. Most of the exchange which is available in the market they try to manipulate their volume. And also some of the coin do it personally. And also their is lots of treading not which manipulate many coins price and volume too.

If all the price manipulation exchanges are then what about the other big top exchanges such as Binance, Huobi, gate.io Kucoin whether the exchange has a volume bot as well, I can't understand if the exchange is manipulating the volume.

That is just one of the ways in which manipulation occur. Exchanges themselves do manipulate. Do you know that there are so many exchanges with fake volume? So, in order to keep up with that, they manipulate prices of coins listed on their sites. Most of them make use of bots and some points, some are done manually.

So much people lost their money in these kinds of exchanges. They manipulate their prices and let people deposit some fun. People send small mount of coin and make their first try. When it is successful people send more coin for buying something cheaper than market price. And they never can withdraw their fund again. Sen e-mails to customer support and no response.
Never fall this trap. These exchanges are scammers. Always trade at safe exchanges. Binanca, Bitfinex, Bittrex, Coinbase etc. Kraken also alternative.
Also be careful about Okex and Huboi as they are using wash trades and show fake volume.
Safe Trades to everyone.

Many of exchangers now are not good enough to list in as many of those are having fake volume or did not getting a high rate of the coins that project offerings, so many of bounty Hunters and investors are looking for a project that kist the coin in the popular exchangers or on the top exchange to assure they will make profits tru promoting and investing.

I know that I have heard of a lot of exchanges manipulating the cryptocurrency market, but I have not really paid attention to them as I don’t think that I am using an exchange that is doing such a thing, the exchange that I am presently using which is binance has very high users that is using their platform on a daily basis, and I really don’t think there should be any reason why they should manipulate prices gain.

They might have done it in the past, maybe when they were first released in order to get some attractions, but now that they have lots of real users, they would not be crazy enough to still continue to engage in this shady activities and I think most of their volume can be very reliable, which is why I believe the data that I see on binance exchange even more than coinmarketcap data.