I mean, if you’re trading $25 are you really going to wait a month to withdraw $50 – of course not. So Tom has now restricted himself to only being able to partake in short-term opportunities - Manipulator Trap #1

So what does he do?

He sits around for the entire day, waiting and waiting to catch a coin while it has already started to pump, so what he is essentially doing is betting on the ‘continuation’ of price moves – Manipulator Trap #2

Then finally, after several hours, he spots what he has been looking for.

XYZ coin is now showing a 70% 24hr increase in price, and every twitter promoter is rapidly sending out tweet after tweet about this coin – so, he buys... Manipulator trap #3

(BTW, with each trap this trader walks into, Manipulators make money – piles and piles of money, because Tom isn’t acting alone... He is trading with the “majority.” And they are all walking directly into these traps with him – and the manipulators are very grateful indeed)

Back to the story...

After buying into XYZ Coin, Tom’s eyes are now glued to the screen.

He keeps switching backward and forward between his twitter tab and his Bittrex tab, trying to keep track of market sentiment (he isn’t even aware that he has already lost, and everything he does from this point onwards benefits manipulators more than himself)

... he sees on twitter “XYZ coin still has miles to go, x40 profit by Wednesday... easy.”

So what does Tom do? Well of course, he tops up his position and throws another $25 into the pot... he now has $50 worth of XYZ coin... Manipulator trap #4

But then... all of a sudden, the market begins to do what the market has always done since its genesis – it begins to punish all the novices one by one as the price of XYZ coin begins to plummet.

I mean, there’s only so many orders that manipulators can fit into the sell side for you to buy, and with so many small traders trying to “play it safe” with their small $25 purchases, manipulators will now move their attention to the orders placed on the buy side by, again, unskilled traders who thought they were being smart... Manipulator trap #5

One, by one, manipulators begin to sell their coins to the buyers who thought they were masters of the game because instead of buying at the market price of 43 satoshi, they placed buy orders for 40 satoshi – which is totally irrelevant to a manipulator who bought piles and piles of XYZ coin at 15 Satoshi.

And thus, the price begins to dip.

However, Tom is still browsing twitter... and all of the promoters are swearing that they “just bought more”...

 Tom even goes to the XYZ ANN thread to gain further insight, and the promoters are still at work... “keep dumping into my buys, you will be pissed later when XYZ goes up 200%” – and after seeing this supposedly positive market sentiment, Tom decides to wait it out... Manipulator trap #6

 He waits.... and waits... and waits... until his $50 depletes and vanishes into the ether.

But.. despite failing... this unskilled trader gears up to do the exact same thing again tomorrow, after all.. he only lost a mere $50 in his XYZ trade... he has an entire $450 stash left to play with.

And so he repeats this same routine until his entire $500 fund is no more.