Onchain analysis seems to start to make noise. I already looking always on these kinds of analysis, especially the outflows/inflows of Bitcoin amount on such exchanges.
What's on my mind about the inflows/outflows is "they can also manipulate the market by just doing some huge transactions".
For example, a whale moves Bitcoins in 1 transaction to exchange, but we don't know if the whale will sell those Bitcoin, right?
Or vice versa, what if there is a huge 1 transaction coming out from the exchange and send to a personal Bitcoin wallet, does it mean they bought Bitcoin on the exchange?
This is key. Whales manipulate the market and their disclosed activities are used for this purpose.
On-chain analyses are interesting but two ways to extrapolate the meanings of data and apply it for investment or trading. Such data is more meaningful for investments.
I agree with your opinion. Additionally, whales manipulate the market and enrich their balance (in fiat and in
BTC). They can increase their
BTC balance from 1000 to 2000 and reserve very old
BTC - years ago, for price manipulation in the future with sudden transactions from old UTXOs.