price manipulation is common, and this is often done by those who have a lot of money and have data from bitcoin buyers by desperately placing lots of holder to sell their tokens and then buy as much bitcoin to reap huge profits when prices rise drastically
and this is a fact for old players in bitcoin
Price manipulation has been in the market for the long period of time. It has been done by the whales behind the names of the company which where not as known to everybody. Yet, in the crypto market trading we don't know or no one knows how do they have done such price manipulation in the trading market. I would not entertain such idea of price manipulation for as long as i am confident with my investment, then they can do every thing they want...