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Re: BTC/USD versus EUR/USD do they correlate?
by
thExit
on 22/09/2014, 18:06:34 UTC
There's one issue that can be interesting, this is how FX participants or stock market players can switch their interest to BTC. The market is small enough to be manipulated, and mature enough to allow profits. Pumps and dumps aren't a novelty in the altcoin markets, they happen on stock markets on a day to day basis, but I'd be skeptical to say that FX players are joining the Bitcoin or altcoin market.

With regard to naked speculation, I used to talk to a director at one of the Forex brokerage companies, he was an experienced stock market investor. While investing, he used to observe pumps and dumps day after day at our Polish stock exchange (GPW), which is a relatively small exchange. The director kept a journal of stocks that were pumped and then dumped. Each day or within a few days, new stock, increase the value, grab some suckers, and then dump, then another one. He observed it for one year. I was quite surprised to learn about that, so I asked if there was a method to profit from such observations. The point is that it becomes visible only at the dump moment:) so there's no way to judge if those are speculators trying to suck others in, or is it a price increase that has some fundamentals behind it.

Here's a less skeptical bit about the FX players.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=7681402#post7681402

Quote from: gjgjg;7681402
I cant help but think this is FX market whales (that normally operate on the fiat FX market) making their $ on short selling because of lack of regulation on BTC. Would help to explain why its a bit quieter around FX world. Of course it cant possibly account for all the quiet around fiat FX, but it would just take one or two big FX whales to take an interest in BTC market to push the price around to whatever they want, quite cheaply and quickly. They would only need to spend much % of their usual daily trading allowance to get the price down to 250 / 300 then just flip the switch and buy the heck out of it and watch it rally to who knows what levels! Of course we wont really know anything about all this until its old news for the insiders.