The only advice I will give you about this is to be careful because these people (crypto CEOs/influentials) sometimes make prediction just to encourage the investors and every prediction that was done using TA/FA are not always accurate.
Dyor
I agree this is an open market although we have whales controlling it
The whales are no longer the market controllers but they are the manipulator while the institutional investors are the current controller. Having said that, according to the research did by a market trend examinator Willy Woo the major buyer/accumulator in the market are ordinary people who have at least 0.1BTC to 5BTC.
we are left to decide how and where to invest and who we listen to, some of these influencers are just leading you nowhere, you have the market, the fundamentals, and the news within your reach, analyze all of this and you can come out when and where to invest your hard-earned money, but of course only invest what you can afford to lose.
This will never happen because 95% of all crypto investors are more into profit than the technology not to talk about doing research.
How do you know what you are saying about whales? I think the whales will forever be mostly the exchanges. I have no clue, but I am quite sure that the five biggest exchanges control the vast majority of BTC by now. Just look at the volume and how many BTC they cash in on a weekly basis. Multiply that by 52 and you know what they could be sitting on. Low operating costs, almost every trade sheer profit. If they stick their heads together, you have a real round table of big fat whales.