We often heard about market manipulation in crypto market. It can be true for small cap, or coin that issue by exchange or for the token where most of that token hold by team. But we also heard it about Bitcoin and etherum, when price fluctuate in large scale. I don't understand how these large cap coin can be manipulate, when these coin are well distributed and decentralized?
I will assumed that you are newbie to knowledge of trading and things around this place. Have you heard of crypto market makers? They are responsible for creation of liquidity and such people have money to make market to be liquid or dried because they have the money to make the market do their ways. If they want the market to go down, they have the power and if they want to pump the price, they also have the power and this is why even the centralized exchanges works with them hand to hand.
Some of the coins you see that are been listed on exchange and get pump, you think it's the traders that buy them and make it go up? No, it's not. When you check the number of people that are buying and selling, they bought most of the time to create a but pressure so the traders and retailers can dump with causing damage to the price. We have many of them out there and doesn't work with exchanges, they operate independently and can make any coin do their ways, manipulate people into buying and sell when they like. That's how this market works.