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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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S3052
on 01/11/2014, 18:18:58 UTC
And now we are back to ≈$300 and peering into the abyss. What could result in bitcoin not plummeting every time it climbs a bit? I understand speculators manipulate the market quite fiercely, but a pump without some new influence on the fundamentals would have to be a bubble, even if it´s from $10 to $100. What would make anyone here honestly believe we where heading up?

People have a very limited 'memory'. If we head up for a week, many people will start buying, effectively believing we'll go up forever.
As a trader you are not interested in the price, only in the price differences. No asset is too costly to buy, nor too cheap to sell.

exactly.

There is no "manipulation" in real.
It is just traders trying to maximize the price difference of buying and selling. Nothing more, nothing less.
One can profit from a declining or rising price development - direction does not matter.