Guys I noticed today that ever time the price goes down it is usually happens first on Huobi but then sometime a bounce happens led by Okcoin. Obviously this is because of the 20x futures on Okcoin. Probably some closing of shorts etc etc
But I was also thinking (maybe a conspiracy theory) that miners could be using a "pump and dump" scheme by dumping on Huobi and then pumping using the Okcoin futures before another dump.
What do u guys think?
More or less totally with you.
Anyone with a half an ounce of sense will be able to realise that the majority of the volume on Huobi, OKCoin, is faked. 0% fees on these exchanges and indeed it is easy for HFT bots to pass numbers back and forth between stooge accounts to ramp the volume up to it's current staggering daily totals. The Chinese government 'clamped down' on BTC in China, but in a very non-descript way, which resulted in the first and one time market leader BTCChina, funded and run by 'outsiders' dropping from top exchange, to a peripheral exchange, whilst Huobi and OKCoin emerged as by far the top exchanges. This sort of behaviour is typical in China whereby foreign companies are pushed to the side, allowing for native companies to take over thier patch.
Now the main use of BTC in China is Capital Flight. For the most part, this won't be normal Chinese citizens converting thier CNY to USD via Bitcoin, but a relatively small cabal, with connections to the exchanges, running the Capital Flight racket. Ultimately, they want CNY into USD. But, if they can ramp the BTC market first, cash out high into USD, then crash the market back down to their buy-in levels, with BTC volumes that might well be nothing more than 'funny numbers' on the likes of Huobi, then...
fucking bonus!
All this would of course be is highly illegal in regulated markets, but eh, where is the regulation here?
The 'good' news for Bitcoin is, that there is such a lot of wealth tied up in China under strict Capital Controls, that this Bitcoin racket (and many other more prominent Capital Flight rackets) could go on for quite a long time. So I guess that means bull market......albeit, bull market with brutal corrections every leg of the way. The day of crisp sharp uninterrupted parabolic rises are gone.