Is the altcoin market being manipulated in 2020?

[awik p]

When it regards to market manipulation, there is no chance to make it over. We can't eliminate whales who are causing this market manipulation for a particular reason. Whales are still huge investors, quite it helps the market to grow compared to casual trader/investors. If we think that we don't need them, we have to think also what happens to us.
Believe me or not, manipulation will never have an ending story as the market still exist.

It is obvious the market of altcoins is being manipulated by the whales especially when it comes to the coins that have grown more than 50% during the last days since there is not a reason for that growth, many think this is the beginning of an altcoin season but when the growth is so fast most of the time the price has a tendency to go down just as fast as it went up and the people that bought at the top are the ones that are the most affected by such crash.

it is possible that this is a strategy of manipulators to take advantage of the situation, where the price of bitcoin starts to rise, and they are trying to gain the trust of investors, if this does not last long, then it is indeed a market manipulation

[bgaf]

no one knows whether the market is being manipulated or not. It seems that the current market conditions are not much different from last year's conditions, it means the market conditions have not changed until now. to avoid the worst events it is better for now that you have to choose a large altcoin such as ETH BNB and XRP for investment.

I think the market is pretty well nice right now compared to last year. Cause btc and eth pricr pulling their price a bit. Manipulation happens everytime so there's really a pump and dump coin or tokens that we are seeing.

Why not you noy involve btc on the list? It's one of the best one that moving good at the moment.

[Mr.Eddies]

Hello There! 

At one time, I stopped being interested in the altcoin-markets because of the situation there. Famous projects were dropping their bags off to gullible investors to get even more money.

Do you think the situation has changed in the year 2020? 
Is it safe to trade ERC-20 tokens and is it possible to earn something else?

Any coin market always has a few bad eggs every once in a while. But if the market shows that the market is worth $0 or less to bidders, then the temptation is greater than ever to manipulate the market to bring more bidders in and continue to drive the price of that coin.

Everyone needs to buy and sell their coins on an open market, not in closed doors in a meeting room with pump'n dumb.

[jazmuzika217]

If you want a safe investment I think you are not fit here in crypto trading and business because all we know that every investment here are risky and close to loss. But if you want a high chance of to survive and to earn I think you should invest at bitcoin because all we know that this is very strong coin and fast moving.

[mcnocon2]

Well it really depends on the altcoin that you picked, If you pick a startup who have a shady team then it will be manipulated surely. I suggest that you pick up an altcoin that is already stable and have use case already. There is so much altcoins that in the industry trying tovachieve the impossible.

[Sithara007]

Well it really depends on the altcoin that you picked, If you pick a startup who have a shady team then it will be manipulated surely. I suggest that you pick up an altcoin that is already stable and have use case already. There is so much altcoins that in the industry trying tovachieve the impossible.

Do you really think that the established altcoins are free from manipulation? I am not sure about this. Because I have seen the case with coins such as Ripple and Litecoin. These coins are manipulated by big players and they regularly do pump-and-dump cycles. This has happened even with BSV. When the market cap is low, it is easier to do market manipulation.

[naikturun]

in my opinion manipulating the whole market is very difficult because it requires a lot of funds.
but recently we have seen an unnatural increase from BSV, and in my opinion it was manipulated because it experienced a very high increase, while others are still reasonable because it follows the rising BTC trend.

[biddicoin]

Hello There! 

At one time, I stopped being interested in the altcoin-markets because of the situation there. Famous projects were dropping their bags off to gullible investors to get even more money.

Do you think the situation has changed in the year 2020? 
Is it safe to trade ERC-20 tokens and is it possible to earn something else?

The situation hasnt changed yet. Altcoin is still on bearish mode, which makes many altcoin down
So, if you wanna trade ERC-20 tokens, it would be risky. especially when you just take 'long' position

you still can get profit if you do 'short' trading. it sells high then buy again in low
or if you just wanna be long term holder, then you should buy Bitcoin only

[aomakun]

Hello There! 

At one time, I stopped being interested in the altcoin-markets because of the situation there. Famous projects were dropping their bags off to gullible investors to get even more money.

Do you think the situation has changed in the year 2020? 
Is it safe to trade ERC-20 tokens and is it possible to earn something else?

The situation hasnt changed yet. Altcoin is still on bearish mode, which makes many altcoin down
So, if you wanna trade ERC-20 tokens, it would be risky. especially when you just take 'long' position

you still can get profit if you do 'short' trading. it sells high then buy again in low
or if you just wanna be long term holder, then you should buy Bitcoin only

if you want to do short-term trading with altcoin then you can use existing techniques. I personally am still in the stage of learning fibonnaci retracment techniques, there may be several other techniques. and don't use large funds if you are still learning how to trade in the short term because I personally use small but multiplying funds.

[setialovers]

Hello There! 

At one time, I stopped being interested in the altcoin-markets because of the situation there. Famous projects were dropping their bags off to gullible investors to get even more money.

Do you think the situation has changed in the year 2020? 
Is it safe to trade ERC-20 tokens and is it possible to earn something else?

Token ERC20 dominates the number of coins in the cryptocurrency market but we must be aware that most of the ERC20 tokens do not have a clear usecase and do not have a large transaction volume and can even be considered illiquid. Regarding whether there was market manipulation in 2020, I think maybe the conditions will be different because investors have started to have experience in choosing good coins or tokens

[spadormie]

The altcoin market is not that being manipulated. Rather manipulating one coin. There could be some time in which a whale could manipulate the price of a coin by buying tons of it and then creates a what we call whale trap. Anyway, manipulating altcoin market in my opinion is very hard though.

[LouVandetta]

Do you think the situation has changed in the year 2020?  
Is it safe to trade ERC-20 tokens and is it possible to earn something else?

Still the same old market, I think. So, nothing really changed, you could see a lot of them are being manipulated and a lot of them are just following the trend.
ERC-20 tokens are mostly safe to trade, but you need to choose the right one, because there are a lot of erc-20 tokens that doesn't have a good value or trading volume.
So, your research in here will come in handy and always prepared for the worst tho. Even though the markets seems to be in a good mood, no one really knows how long this will last.

[matchi2011]

Well it really depends on the altcoin that you picked, If you pick a startup who have a shady team then it will be manipulated surely. I suggest that you pick up an altcoin that is already stable and have use case already. There is so much altcoins that in the industry trying tovachieve the impossible.

Right project brings good outcome while scammy project will only turned your investment into dust. Don't waste your time and money make sure to have the right attitude whenever you are putting your money in this venue of investment. There's always good possibilities and right timing to enjoy your profits.

[terrific]

Earn something else if you want to.
We have plenty of choices in this market and it's your choice to trade whatever you want.
The wrong decision is that you're be dependent to the suggestions of others. You should be able to know what you are investing, what you are buying and what you are holding.

[tiang_tower]

Well it really depends on the altcoin that you picked, If you pick a startup who have a shady team then it will be manipulated surely. I suggest that you pick up an altcoin that is already stable and have use case already. There is so much altcoins that in the industry trying tovachieve the impossible.

Right, this is what we have to sort out in choosing altcoin, whether it's stable or unstable altcoin, and that we can see through the team that built altcoin itself, so we won't be wrong in choosing altcoin.

[SabrinaBianka]

For me all coins are can be manipulate by the bigger holders they can sold bags of coins and then the price will dump. But if the coins has many use cases whales are very aware to pump and dump the coins/tokens because is useful token can't dump easily.

[Smitty Werben Man Jensen]

For me all coins are can be manipulate by the bigger holders they can sold bags of coins and then the price will dump. But if the coins has many use cases whales are very aware to pump and dump the coins/tokens because is useful token can't dump easily.

if you buy it at the highest price it is very risky, you see the price of BSV, BSV touches all time high and if you buy it at the ATH price then now you have lost almost 50% more, its terrible indeed

[hirngespenst]

No, it's not being manipulated, its a normal growth of the Altcoin market! You see the crypto market full with altcoins, so there are many coins with a bad reputation or no future, no use cases! You should ignore them! But there are some good altcoins too, that can give you a huge profit, ERC20 is not a fact or issue here! To be safe, you may buy and trade or hold only the top-ranked coins!

[Google+]

Earn something else if you want to.
We have plenty of choices in this market and it's your choice to trade whatever you want.
The wrong decision is that you're be dependent to the suggestions of others. You should be able to know what you are investing, what you are buying and what you are holding.

Even though you have tried to find other altcoins to be able to make a profit but that cannot provide a guarantee that your altcoin can be profitable because there are still often price manipulations that often occur, you can try to use coins at the exchange place that is FOMO in order to get profit.

[veilmoil]

which project that you are talking about selling their coin ?, of course yes many coin/token price get manipulated by whale include btc ( i think )