Even if the market can be manipulated, still we have no control over that. So just stick to buying and hodling, and eventually sell when your target price has been achieved. Otherwise, if you are too bothered if ever this manipulation occurs, then it won’t do anything good for you but you only end up missing opportunities to buy and hold.
Bitcoin has its own timeline. It will go up or drop down on its own, regardless of the said manipulation, and the sad thing is, we can’t predict accurately as to what the next direction of bitcoin will be.
We are in bull market but we aren't sure when we will be in a parabolic run but that time is very near. These days the market is highly influenced by the news. For the last few days, the market was going up and we were over 107-108K but then the Israel - Iran war broke out and the markets dumped to 103-104K. Some we have Elon-Trump fight news and other times the tariff news becomes the reason of the market dump. I hope we do get only bullish news for a month or two and we can easily see bitcoin over 125K and beyond.