I have been observing the prices of FREE in Coinmarketcap for a few weeks and I must say that investors must be very careful with the values that we see in CMC and that they do not base their investment decisions exclusively on CMC, because in many cases it is a mirage.
In the concrete example of FREE, which I have been following for a few weeks, I have observed that for FREE to be in the top100 of CMC it is as simple as making a volume of 200-300 $ in the FREE / BTC pair of MERCATOX.
Such an insignificant amount can cause a token to scale to the top100 or even top50 of CMC.
And why should we be careful?
Well because those trades are not logical, not to say that they are the same dev who do those operations, but of course, I do not have proof, but I can not believe that someone will buy FREE in MERCATOX, when they can buy it 350 times cheaper in Token.Store or recently in HOTBIT.
The dev should do something about it, of course if CMC puts them in the top50 thanks to these "defects" and the investors do not say anything, because they remain silent.
I believe that if it is a truly serious project, they should do something so that the FREE / BTC pair does not govern the price of FREE, considering that nobody will buy at that price.
I accompany current image of CMC with FREE in position 225. Yesterday, when FREE was in the top 100, the FREE / BTC volume in MERCATOX was higher. Look at that value that alone makes hundreds of positions in CMC go up or down.
The reason is in the calculation form of CMC, which makes a weighted price. Then a SMALL volume in FREE / BTC of MERCATOX can influence DECISIONLY in the total capitalization of the token, since its price is much higher than the other pairs.
Using a weighted price is logical when there is not much difference in price, however, in cases like this, in which there are pairs with very different prices, the result of the weighting is UNREAL.