Bitcoin Mini bull run or short Squeeze (manipulation) ?

[virasog]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Also, when we look at the fundamentals, they are also all bearish with events like Luna Crash, FTX Crash, Stable coins fund, Gemini and other companies' bankruptcy.

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

[un_rank]

Could it be a correction of the price?

As you mentioned there have been positive news in the recent past which indirectly and loosely affected bitcoin and could have pushed the price now and now there is a retrace back to the more accurate valuation.

It could also be a mini bull run and the price keeps creeping up with the coming weeks.

- Jay -

[pooya87]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Just because random people on the internet say a bunch of stuff that doesn't mean those stuff are correct. That doesn't even mean they believe in them! Back in 2017 everyone was saying price is going to reach $100k just because price was on the rise for some time and in about a month went up 2x.

It's the same story these days, just because price dropped for a while a lot of newbies who claim to be "analysts" was too caught up in the drop that thought it should continue indefinitely.

Also, when we look at the fundamentals, they are also all bearish with events like Luna Crash, FTX Crash, Stable coins fund, Gemini and other companies' bankruptcy.

Most of it had very little to do with bitcoin or its price although they usually cause weak hands' panic sells.

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

Good news is not the only reason leading to a rise.

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

Bitcoin is not pumping (pumping demands a follow up dump). It is rising and in my opinion the main reason is simply because it was undervalued (a reverse bubble) so it had to correct and go back to realistic values.
After all the dump itself was manipulation to push the price to unrealistically low levels.

[Ojima-ojo]

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

Ops wonder no more, because it is too early for that and the only time Bitcoin increase or decrease in value will cause me to wonder as for what is behind its movement is when the percentages movement in both direction is up to 15% to 20% within a short period not more than 24 to 48 hours.

But this time bitcoin just gain a little around 3% to 1.30% in the last few days, and also did that percentage movement in both directions.

So all I can say is the bitcoin is just acting out its normal market movement, and the only event I can point to be responsible for this increase is the US inflation rate that made many stocks gain a few percentage volumes against the dollars in the last few days.

[KFC786]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Also, when we look at the fundamentals, they are also all bearish with events like Luna Crash, FTX Crash, Stable coins fund, Gemini and other companies' bankruptcy.

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

We just do not know that what can happen in next coming weeks but that's not bull either. But still Bitcoin price may go back to almost 30k at the end of February and that could push a lot of buyers to buy and whales can also make good money too.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Bitcoin is not pumping (pumping demands a follow up dump). It is rising and in my opinion the main reason is simply because it was undervalued (a reverse bubble) so it had to correct and go back to realistic values.
After all the dump itself was manipulation to push the price to unrealistically low levels.

Realistic value? So in your opinion at what level should it be staying if all the dump made few months ago was just a solid manipulation. We can say it is, but some institution are probably unload their bags due to the recession that we have experience and we all knew cash is the best weapon during recession.

[pooya87]

Realistic value? So in your opinion at what level should it be staying if all the dump made few months ago was just a solid manipulation. We can say it is, but some institution are probably unload their bags due to the recession that we have experience and we all knew cash is the best weapon during recession.

It is tough to say but it is clear that $16k was way below the intrinsic value of bitcoin whether you want to compute it based on the cost of mining which some people do or based on the historical price movements where $20k was the last bubble's peak we saw back in 2017 and price never goes below it. Not to mention with all the adoption we had price had to have gone up not go down. But when a lot of bitcoin is unloaded on a small market with thinned order books, the price tends to go below the intrinsic value very easily.

[Yatsan]

Bitcoin is not pumping (pumping demands a follow up dump). It is rising and in my opinion the main reason is simply because it was undervalued (a reverse bubble) so it had to correct and go back to realistic values.
After all the dump itself was manipulation to push the price to unrealistically low levels.

Realistic value? So in your opinion at what level should it be staying if all the dump made few months ago was just a solid manipulation. We can say it is, but some institution are probably unload their bags due to the recession that we have experience and we all knew cash is the best weapon during recession.

There's no such thing as realistic value simply because its market price is determine by demand which means sky is the limit. Institutions might be holding longer I think, for sure they have entered already at $15k and are only waiting for a huge pump. Economic recession I guess has nothing to do with this one. For sure they are not dumb enough to put their threshold into another investment which is too volatile. What we are seeing might be a temporary spike with the prices due to mixed factors; the report and other related news in this industry. But this is something to look forward to for this year given how long the market remained on dip last quarter of the previous year.

[aoluain]

Bitcoin is not pumping (pumping demands a follow up dump). It is rising and in my opinion the main reason is simply because it was undervalued (a reverse bubble) so it had to correct and go back to realistic values.
After all the dump itself was manipulation to push the price to unrealistically low levels.

Realistic value? So in your opinion at what level should it be staying if all the dump made few months ago was just a solid manipulation. We can say it is, but some institution are probably unload their bags due to the recession that we have experience and we all knew cash is the best weapon during recession.

There's no such thing as realistic value simply because its market price is determine by demand which means sky is the limit. Institutions might be holding longer I think, for sure they have entered already at $15k and are only waiting for a huge pump. Economic recession I guess has nothing to do with this one. For sure they are not dumb enough to put their threshold into another investment which is too volatile. What we are seeing might be a temporary spike with the prices due to mixed factors; the report and other related news in this industry. But this is something to look forward to for this year given how long the market remained on dip last quarter of the previous year.

Tes, the markets are fickle and I think they are still heavily leveraged. This new little pump up
could well have been as a result of short trades getting liquidated which in turn pump the
price, which in turn liquidates more short trades, and so on.

I can imagine that a lot of long trades have been placed by traders thinking the market is going
to keep rising, which means that eventually they are going to get liquidated causing a fall back.

[Nrcewker]

We just do not know that what can happen in next coming weeks but that's not bull either. But still Bitcoin price may go back to almost 30k at the end of February and that could push a lot of buyers to buy and whales can also make good money too.

I also heard the same thing. Throughout the twitter it is being discussed that Bitcoins will cross 30k usd very soon. Those who were waiting for more low price, they gonna regret. Bitcoins have started increasing in price, and won’t stop till they reach a price correction point. Many are also predicting that Bitcoins will take a pause at 35k usd, but still that’s just an assumption, anything can happen in between. But currently what I can see is that, there are more buy orders then sell orders for Bitcoins. So bitcoins will keep on rising for now.

[noormcs5]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Usually bitcoin will never reach the prices which everyone is anticipating. Do you think that everyone will wait for 12K and buy bitcoin and build position at that level and then ride the profits during next bull market. Market never gives profits to all the participants.

I would say that bitcoin can still dump and reach 12K levels but it will only happen when no one will anticipate for it. Just like who knows bitcoin might dump from 24-25$ level and reach news lows. Anything can happen in crypto world.

[GreatArkansas]

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In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

It's very confusing right now. If you take a look at lower time frame, you will see a very volatile, lot of candle wicks green/or red but on higher time, all good, fewer wicks.
The breakout from the $21,000 level for me seems the bullish for short term for me, especially since the monthly candle is fast approaching.
If we manage to hold the $21,000 level this month, for me this is not a bear trap anymore. A bullish sign for me until the end of first quarter of this year.

[DeathAngel]

It could be a bear market rally like we saw in 2019 when bitcoin rose to $13,000 before falling back down significantly.

It could be because FTX were selling fake bitcoin because they didn’t actually have any to sell. This was artificially increasing the supply which is weird but what actually happened. This suppressed the price so now FTX has blown up the foot is off bitcoin’s head so maybe it now will start to rise.

These are all theories, the only way we’ll know if this is a fake pump is with time. Let’s see where the price is by end of Q1.

[Lucius]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Not everyone expected the price to go so low, although many hoped to buy Bitcoin at even lower prices. Expectations and reality often go in different directions, and that was the case this time as well - although even today there are those who think that another crash will happen. My personal opinion is that the price is returning to where it should realistically be, which is somewhere between $25k and $30k, with the possibility that it will be even higher by the end of the year if the world economy continues to recover.

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

As some have already written, there does not have to be positive news about Bitcoin for its price to rise, but you, like many others on the forum, do not look at the big picture and what happened at the beginning of the year slips completely under your radar. I wrote a little more about it in this thread, and if you take into account that Bitcoin has become part of global markets, then it is logical that such (positive) events have an impact on its price as well.

[buwaytress]

Yeah, don't get caught up in the news (which is all after the fact, really) and don't get caught up in predictions. As pointed out above, people were gunning for 100k 5 years ago (not to mention the prophets of 1 million dollar Bitcoin). That might seem like a certainty in next ATH (I certainly think so) but we'll probably hear about 500k and more in the run up. Don't buy any of it.

This isn't manipulation, to me. It's just a return to the mean. We'll probably suffer a lot more before proper confidence pushes price back to actual value.

[serveria.com]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Also, when we look at the fundamentals, they are also all bearish with events like Luna Crash, FTX Crash, Stable coins fund, Gemini and other companies' bankruptcy.

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

Bitcoin doesn't give a damn about fundamentals, TA, news etc. There have been too many attempts to manipulate Bitcoin, including "China bans Bitcoin", "Bitcoin is a ponzi and it's going to 0" etc etc etc that is has become less prone to it. Besides, we dropped below $19k, which was the previous cycle's top and such behavior is abnormal for BTC to say the least. When Bitcoin is sinking and it's accompanied by great news nobody is surprised. When there are no good news and we're pumping everyone is so shocked! Why? 

[Ucy]

When each and every analysis was bearish on the bitcoin and everyone was expecting bitcoin to dump to 12K-14K$, the bitcoin start pumping and reached 23K in few days time.

Also, when we look at the fundamentals, they are also all bearish with events like Luna Crash, FTX Crash, Stable coins fund, Gemini and other companies' bankruptcy.

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

The current price movement was actually predicted on this forum. It's the only place where it's predicted so accurately.

It's actually a Miracle, from our CREATOR rather than price manipulation. And this will continue to happen until the end.
If a news a million times worse than the current fundamental appears it will still move up. If $100billion is remove from the market it will still move up.
The price movement is nolonger in the hands of the so called Whales. It's in the hands of the one whom Bitcoin serves and obey.
 The truth is that If you break free from the Matrix you become the richest and have the ability to influence things including the price of Bitcoin.
I hope this truth isn't too much for you to handle. I expect intelligent and open minded people to see this as a possibility. Afterall many believe human could live forever, something that seem very impossible.

[Yamifoud]

Also, we do not have any positive news about bitcoin recently, do we?

We don't have any but I think people have started to accumulate some which increases demand after being bothered with a number of market issues in the past few weeks. It was done and they realized that it couldn't be enough not to trust back to Bitcoin again.

In these times, the bitcoin to pump makes me wonder whether it is due to manipulation and short squeeze to liquidate many short positions opened on bitcoin?

No manipulations happen and it pumps naturally that is what I see. But it never holds long and stays in that position, many people are dumping their Bitcoin for the sake of making a profit from a few price rallies. I couldn't blame them because these people are already waiting for it, perhaps, they are short-term investors.

[franky1]

underlying value (cheapest on planet to acquire is $15k for 2022)
this is the off-market
(spot market is retail market, off market is the wholesale stuff line mining and OTC)

the price wanted to go up in december but was artificially held down in in december by whale walling the market to chew threw any orders trying to go above $17k
this was because whales had futures bets(other platform) that price would be under $17k and they wanted to keep the retail spot market below $17k to win
as soon as they got their win at new year they switched off the whale wall bot trader
there is another one temporarily at about $23.5k

basically
open free market wouls see a speculation of $15k to 90k in 2022. but was squeezed to a
$15k -$17k manipulated window in decemmber
and a $20k-$21.5k window start of january
and a $22k-$23.5k window of mid january

i expect the whales to continue to whale order control retail spot market into small windows in step-lock of 1-8 week lengths to be able to make futures bets of same period length..   rather then far wide window of high volatility

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[klidex]

Could it be a correction of the price?

As you mentioned there have been positive news in the recent past which indirectly and loosely affected bitcoin and could have pushed the price now and now there is a retrace back to the more accurate valuation.

It could also be a mini bull run and the price keeps creeping up with the coming weeks.

- Jay -

It seems not if it is said as a price correction.
No one knows for sure what is the main factor causing the price of Bitcoin for now to have increased quite a lot.
Maybe it could be because there is positive news that spreads about Bitcoin so that large-scale adoption occurs, but large adoption also does not necessarily affect the price of bitcoin so that it rises so quickly and it is said that the increase is not small.
Surely many crypto experts have done research and research, but I myself have not heard or read anything definite.