Date: April 21st, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: Laughsome Cerise Kitchen Giraffe
I've been following BTC's price action over the past 6 weeks to time my entry into a couple of juicy alts.
It was basically tanking until some entity or entities propped it up in the $6k range. Then those same entities strategically pushed it up over various prices in order to "break" certain resistance levels that are important to technical traders (i.e., make everyone think that a bull market had returned).
You can see on this image from yesterday's surge that one or a couple of entities just start ripping through the order book to push the price above a certain target. Each green circle is a 20 BTC or more buy.
http://i.imgur.com/r2G6xjd.png
It could either be some holders with long positions, or even an exchange(s) hoping to get more volume back.
I don't hold any BTC, but LOL at people "investing" or trying to trade it when it is completely at the whims of a few market makers.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3955667&forum_id=7#35887603)