If this is serious, this is pretty disgusting.
An organised pump and dump gang will really harm the image of alt coins. It's taking advantage of people who think that a coin is really increasing in value. The money the gang makes when they sell all their coin at the peak of the spike in value comes from the people who are to late in the selling.
It's a scam. People who do this, in my book, are on the same level as people who pretend to send coins in a transaction and don't.
This thread should be locked and the OP labled a scammer.
Couldn't agree more.
I'm torn; while I hear you that the pump & dump thing seems bad, I'm willing and ready to profit for their stupid methodology... so I'm ok with profiting off of the sheep that follow this sheep herder.
I use the same strategy for investing in stocks prior to institutional investors using their analysis to determine their next move (and I'm trying to guess what their move is before they know).
I consider this similar to penny stock promoters... I don't listen to them, and I think the people who follow them are mostly blind sheep; however, there is some fundamental analysis behind their recommendations, it's just that people use them incorrectly.
Not sure what the right answer is, but it's always a tough call. Granted there are many people who think car salesmen are evil b/c they turn profit off of people who are uneducated and don't know the market value of a car...
Is there a difference? please discuss before making rash quick judgments...