Quote from: JohnGalt on May 16, 2018, 08:51:41 AM

Quote from: MikeGr on May 09, 2018, 09:29:09 PM

It is so obvious that some kind of manipulation is choking the potential price increases of all cryptos.

It is not obvious to me. Can you please show me information that clearly and undeniably indicates manipulation?

trend anals look at a chart and draw pretty triangles of suggestion. bots use the same pretty triangles. thus bots move because of pretty triangles and cause the result of what the pretty triangles are suggesting.

EG today you were not going to eat pizza.. but last week you ate pizza, and the month before that you ate pizza. so i suggest today maybe you should eat pizza..
i bet your now thinking about eating pizza

the problem is those pretty triangles are not based on current data/situations/events. trend anals are about looking at the past and causing the past to repeat itself without understanding why the past event occured in the first place.

EG october 2013 jump occured due to ASICS hitting the market. january 2014 happened due to MTGox.
this year there has not been a asic or mtgox event and thus there would not be a repeat of 2013-14...
yet trend anals create a repeat of 2013-14 simply because of the power of sugestion that a price movement should happen because a price movement did happen.

with bots set to look at only one piece of data (a pizza menu) all it can see is that one piece of data. and if many bots are all doing the same thing. suddenly a pizza restaurant will see an increase of pizza orders. this is how advertising works. businesses see an increase in sales if they use suggestive advertising to viewers.

hint..
there is no logical reason for there to be a 2 year stagnation for bitcoin prices. there is no real world event predictor of tomorrow. but trend anals wil draw prtty triangles to suggest based on the 2014-16 data that we are going to have a 2 year stagnation from 2018-2020. and so bots will se these pretty triangles and only trade based on a narrow window of percieved stagnation. thus themselves cause the stagnation.

then in 2020.. the bots and users will reinforce the notion that trend anals are the oracles of future because of the repeat and thus starts the epic sheep follow cycle of blinding causing a future based on the past limited data.

EG you are going to start eating pizza more often. not because your kitchen is empty of other real foods. but because have been suggested to that pizza should become part of a regular routine based on the past which you infact caused by listening into the power of suggestive advertising.
now cometh the wednesday routine of "pizza night"