yeah sure people trade into their own orders to "test the waters"

and ofc they run several accounts all with fake identities to perform this absolutlely lucrative stunt of "gathering data"

happy new year guys, lets pop some barolos tonight

Yup, they do. Always have and always will. Part of The Great Game. Obviously if they are all your own orders it achieves nothing lol (or maybe just sthg different ....) and I was not implying that

Happy new year to you too

its more easy if you tell me at monero-markets,otherwise smooth will have to use that ugly color red again