You seem unable to make money regardless of the direction of the market. Don't start trying to blame everyone else for the fact that you lost money trading, take some responsibility for your failures instead of putting your tinfoil hat on again. Manipulated market? sure. Volatile? fact. Crap at trading and therefore shouldn't bother? Check.
Precisely.
Therefore I withdraw my meagre capital from the market, just as everyone else in a similar boat to me does, leaving less and less profits for the 'pro traders' to reap, which means that the 'not so pro traders' amongst the pro traders are then required to feel the sting of the market in order that the more skilled traders can profit. These relatively lesser traders then withdraw their funds from market, leaving less funds from the remaining traders to profit from......wash rinse repeat.....and you have a brutal bear market that ends not in a bang, but an apathetic whimper.