A price drop will not bring consolidation, quite the opposite. When the price becomes attractive enough, one big player will typically drop enough money to buy several thousand BTC at once.
Of course. IMO at some stage the price will turn around but that won't be before it drops low enough to guarantee a return.
Not true. They may just recognize how shallow this market is, and how easy it would be to push it in one direction or the other, given a modest amount (in USD) of Bitcoins, by market standards.
+1
Not sure why this 'play' is invisible to so many people...