Bear market doesn't happen because there is futures, bear market is a natural trend in any markets including bitcoin. But you also have a point here, there has been a lot of market manipulation that is taking advantage of futures.
In fact over the past weeks I have noticed spikes in number of shorts whenever price starts rising up (not falling!) which will then prevent that rise. Good news is that even though the amount of shorts is increasing their effect is drastically decreasing:
https://i.imgur.com/8wf9auU.jpgThank you very much for your professional icon instructions. The downward trend seems to be getting worse. The enthusiasm of the market has been drastically reduced.
