Have you ever traded yourself?
I mean at a currency or commodity exchange that would count as a regulated one? Obviously, you haven't since otherwise you would have known that this pattern of price behavior is omnipresent. It is the same with major currencies, commodities like oil as well as precious metals. The price may stay frozen literally for weeks and then crash or spike many percentages within a day or two (oil has been particularly notorious in this regard recently). I guess there should be a theory explaining this phenomenon (likely tied to market inertia), but it certainly has nothing with price manipulation as you mean it (i.e. something illegal which is possible only at cryproexchanges). Just in case, regulated exchanges are using the same tricks that unregulated ones employ, and they even get caught (sometimes). I'd rather say it is you who is really naive here
I don't have time to make it any clearer for you. Here's your original statement I took issue with. You then tried to turn around 180 degrees what you said to make my comments irrelevant.
Google "information asymmetry", bro.
That means you know jack shit, and the guys who are pumping, dumping, frontrunning, and scamming know everything. Check your macroeconomic textbook at the front door. NOTHING is illegal in this space yet. They can outright steal your bitcoin and you have no recourse.