Market can be manipulated?

[ILLuzion]

It seems to me obvious that someone is manipulating the market. The price can not change so quickly on its own.

[braZZers123]

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?

I think it's possible. there are owners of large savings in crypto currency-whales-that they can campaign, can artificially understate and raise the value in the crypto-currency market in order to make money, for those with weak nerves.

[asdn192zhhhh]

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.

[3kpk3]

The cryptocurrency market is quite sensitive as you may have noticed already and I can say without a doubt that market manipulation is a common trend in this market by the whales who perform these operations in a stealthy manner. This is something which we need to simply comply with due to the decentralized nature of the cryptocurrency market which is why investing in this market is regarded as risky business.

[hyadumadha]

Lord Acton said that Power Tends To Corrupt, Absolute Power Corrupt Absolutely. When you have a lot assets to play in the market, you will have the power to manipulate the market, its proved when you trade in some market, there always "a wall" to protect the price, whose hand create that wall? lol.

[sclmte]

yes people manipulate market because they participate in future trading and they manipulate as per their trading.

It's getting obvious right now as numbers of whales doing such thing already and that's also makes market trend so volatile. Anyway,  they are free to do that since we are in decentralized community. It only make sad of not seeing a huge hike cause they might have taken control market price. 

[chengyinoing]

I think it's possible, as long as you have enough money, such as a big exchange, a project or a big consortium.

So in a bear market I advise you to keep your money as much as you can, and it's your best bet to keep your bottom line at the right time.

[AfterTheFork]

Ye the market can be manipulated, There are a number of powerful individuals who dump the coins in the market with intentions of lowering the prices so that they can buy cheaply and later make some profits out of them when the coins are  more valuable. THESE WELLS TEND TO do anything within their power to make life in the crypto industry hard for others while they make profits from market manipulation

[mariayaz]

It always have been manipulated and will be in future too. Like you can see market now, BTC is so down in value but you can also expect it to increase in value within hrs.

[DikkieD]

Currently, the whole game seems to be rigged. Manipulation, fud, suppression, whale games....I mean, the list goes on with parties that try to influence not only the btc price, but all altcoins too. It's like everybody seems to think now is the time, and only now, to accummulate proper. Tether is currently perhaps the most obvious and visible way to manipulate, hope they will soon prove that usdt is backed by actual (and sufficient) fiat....but I am afraid I already know the answer...

[Mt. Dempo]

I think the odds of manipulation in the market are huge (especially the market owned by centralized exchange), but if in decentralized exchanges the market is very difficult to manipulate, because the buyer will be directly connected by the seller. please correct me if i am wrong.

[Zack Lee]

it could happen because every trade there must be a black game that will always exist from time to time but the system they do that is not in the know by the crowd.

I think it's impossible because I know the market price is not possible to manipulate but the possibility for altcoin prices can be manipulated, and the possibility of altcoin and bitcoin prices now declining is probably due to manipulation whereas crypto market also cannot be returned to the original price than from now on it is better we hold our altcoin and wait for all the good back

[waorana]

It's been a long time since I think that the cryptocurrency market, at least in part, is being manipulated. The statement by these researchers at the University of Texas on the Bitfinex exchange does not surprise me. Until there is no regulation of the market and of the entire sector, it will become increasingly risky to invest in this sector for the common people

[Hughes_Ryan]

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?

I think that only large investors can manipulate the price of cryptocurrency.

I do not agree with your opinion. The person who can manipulate that market price is the whale. Whales are holding more than 60% of bitcoin assets and they can make bitcoin prices decrease whenever they want.

[pharaon]

it could happen because every trade there must be a black game that will always exist from time to time but the system they do that is not in the know by the crowd.

I think it's impossible because I know the market price is not possible to manipulate but the possibility for altcoin prices can be manipulated, and the possibility of altcoin and bitcoin prices now declining is probably due to manipulation whereas crypto market also cannot be returned to the original price than from now on it is better we hold our altcoin and wait for all the good back

I also would like to believe that it is impossible to manipulate market prices, but how can we then explain the insane price growth in December last year?

[nelsledma]

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?

I think that only large investors can manipulate the price of cryptocurrency.

Large investors or groups of many small sized or medium sized investors can manipulate the price of bitcoin and other crypto currencies in order to turn the market in their favour. Most of the crypto currencies being on decentralized platform have high volatility and this volatility is used by these large investors to manipulate the market. Decentralized network has its own advantage and disadvantage.

[Huruharacorp]

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.

I think your theory is too simple to mean that the market is being manipulated, and you only see it from your own point of view. because I think the price of crypto down there is bad news that hit bitcoin

[sebastianweyer655@gmail.c]

Yeh ofcourse it can, it's not really as easy as people make out though and still has risks to it.

[traderethereum]

I think it already happens from a long time ago and we don't know this. maybe they can manipulate the price in the market especially for people which have a big money so they can increase or decrease the price. but they cannot do this forever and I am sure that the price changes because of supply and demand although they have a big money to change it.

[Bitcoincole]

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.

I think your theory is too simple to mean that the market is being manipulated, and you only see it from your own point of view. because I think the price of crypto down there is bad news that hit bitcoin

I disagree about your perception too, having a huge breakdown of value in a market is created only a bad news thats impossible in can't believe it. For me i believe in price manipulation because they have a big intention to pull it down the price to the interest of everybody.