Long story short, trading is manipulation, manipulation is trading. The art of buying something for one price and selling it for another implies that perception has been augmented to some degree, or else it wouldn't be possible to do that.


I tend not to look at it as traders vs developers, it's more like traders are now doing what they're supposed to do - but in their numbers.

A year ago, there wasn't any sophistication on the trading end of the scale, but during the last few months that has changed and we are seeing this reflect in the market because the price action has also changed.

You have more and more people who are now taking advantage of accumulation periods, which admittedly may be freezing some developers out of a very fundamental stage in their own coins price cycle, so I see where conflict can arise.

At the end of the day a developer creates a coin, markets that coin and draws his own profits, thats practically it. The role of a trader is to be as strategic as possible in a marketplace so as to purchase cheaply and then sell expensively. A trader may have a few more weapons in his arsenal that will allow him to do this than the typical developer - who isn't a trader.

Regardless of how the market has been maneuvered and milked for profit, the aim is never to "hijack the sport" it's to let traders know how simple it is to get ahead, especially when your main competitors aren't as powerful as you thought they were