Market can be manipulated?

[WhaleTank]

Market is manipulated
Just check the previous 500$ dip when every one saw uptrend and booom
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[KevenDabid]

People are always trying to find a reason for the market's decline, but there is no reason for it.
Because the market is buying and selling is market behavior.

[rami.alkhakimi]

Yes, of course the market is currently subject to manipulation by major players, this is my personal opinion. It is profitable for them to buy at a low price.

[dicaprio]

The market is really being manipulated, because the market movements are now very much like manipulation, see how fast bitcoin moves up or down, it's obvious that prices are manipulated.

[milada]

Many of the people who own a large amounts of crypto have been in this market  for a number of years and know each other.They can take coordinated  actions to increase or decrease the price.So also in this way the crypto market can be manipulated.

[herlips]

Latest article by www.wired.co.uk stated that a newspaper by researchers  at the University of Texas at Austin's department of finance indicates that someone at Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange may have artificially inflated the price of coins including bitcoin, ether, and Zcash. The responsible for this appears to have been Tether, a cryptocurrency with the same CEO as Bitfinex.
What are your thoughts about this? Do you think they really manipulated the price? Is it possible?

If you don't think there was at least a LITTLE market manipulation then you haven't been in the crypto community for very long. I remember even back when I was just getting started in 2013 how there were incessant claims about the market being manipulated, along with all kinds of other arguments about who was doing it, if it was the whales, the exchanges, if the normal users could do anything to fight against it, all kinds of fun things. I could probably go back into my post history and find out just how often there were threads like that since I typically ended up involving myself in them.

The chances that the market was manipulated and that there were some things that happened because of that - which wouldn't have happened otherwise - is incredibly significant and honestly, in my opinion, nearly guaranteed. It's like with Mt.Gox in 2013; the market was manipulated, inflating the price, bringing Bitcoin into the forefront of the news cycle for a while. I personally got involved due to that manipulation, so it's not always bad.

Yeah I haven't been in crypto for a very long time, I've just joined last year and still continuing to learn. Anyways, thank you for the information I think I still need to read and read articles or news anything about crypto.

[stasiulman]

The market is likely not, but the market prices, of course, can be manipulated, like the securities market. Everything comes from the desire and benefit of big money. Incorrect information, early information sinking, and the market begin to fever.

[martinford14]

Ofcourse it can, any market can. Crypto is easier as there's such low liquidity compared to the stock market or forex.

[kaopxa]

It absolutely can. Important to note that volumes are not actually that high in the crypto space in general, only dollar values because BTC is so (relatively) high. Therefore, any trader with sufficient backing can wreck a market

[beerlover]

I think manipulation is possible. Previously, there had been news manipulation. Maybe it's one of them. In any case, I think that if now manipulations to reduce the price, then in the future there will be manipulations to increase. I don't care, I just hold.

Manipulation is not just possible, it is being done. Wash trading, spoofing, name them are all being done across exchanges. Do we want to talk about how the media is being used daily just to send wrong messages and even false ones to the space and you get to see people and traders acting on it pretty fast.

All those things are being done in this space already and it is a good thing that the government in a way is looking into it, but the hard part is that it is not globally regulated and with all the exchanges thereabout, it would be hard to implement.

[BruceJu]

Yes, as long as the market can be manipulated, the greater the market's cost of manipulation, the greater the cryptocurrency will become the fourth largest currency this year. In the next two years, it will surpass the third largest currency.

[gensol]

The market on a general level is manipulated by different people at different stages. First, we see pump and dump groups inflating prices so high just to crash it after few minutes, again we see the whales who keep suppressing the price just for them to buy low and inflate the price when they want to sell.

[insidertradingeverywhere]

Of course it can be manipulated! Look at charts and then open news at the time of big pumps and dumps.
Some news are published with time lag specially to make manipulation!

[Mix_Fix]

Yeah, while there won't be trillions of trading volume, whales can easily manipulate prices and use pump and dump schemes for making fast and easy money. Also in future regulation can help market to fight with whales.

[9jaflick]

Latest article by www.wired.co.uk stated that a newspaper by researchers  at the University of Texas at Austin's department of finance indicates that someone at Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange may have artificially inflated the price of coins including bitcoin, ether, and Zcash. The responsible for this appears to have been Tether, a cryptocurrency with the same CEO as Bitfinex.
What are your thoughts about this? Do you think they really manipulated the price? Is it possible?

This 100% possible, we see manipulations around cryptocurrency market every day, and this inclouds the grand-master of all crypto (Bitcoin). what do you think happens in the year 2017, what causes the market pump? manipulationS.....
It happens even in forest, that the secrete of the business!

[felipe04]

yes it can so if you can't accept that you can leave

possible is always here in crypto we can't see the all coins

manipulated or not look what the worth of crypto for you after that focus on your goal

[mr_smith99]

Of course the market can be manipulated and the big whales do it.. 

[JaekRock]

Yes, manipulation is possible and could be occuring on basically any project or exchange.  'Market maker' is a common term thrown around exchanges and trading discussions, referring to someone who has enough assets on either side to swing the exchange in a direction (to an extent).  Sometimes this action is intended to cause FUD or FOMO.  Just goes with the territory of exchange trading.

[babay_ko]

The entire crypto industry, if not all of the greater part (trading) is built on speculation. It's my opinion personally. It's because whales are able to manipulate all the rest on the market and there's nothing to be done about it.

[cuo]

that's very posible, because the pricing is an auction, when the low price is approved by the buyer, price will fall, it happens otherwise. And it happens if a person has enough capital to drive the price of the total volume.