Or they are simply slave of the system like every one of us ?
I think traders are just sheep like the rest of us following the general trends and hoping to get rich quick, there are too many whales for them to be able to realistically collude enough to affect the price substantially.
While many traders try to follow the trends the truth is there are many traders that are anti trends, they try to time the market and see when the trend seems to be about to change, when this happens they short bitcoin, obviously the problem with that strategy is if they time it wrong then they can lose a lot of money if a big bull run follows.