Bitcointalk's shutdown put the kibosh on the last two reports, but here I am again. I wish I could say that the downtime gave me a bit of a vacation, but the markets never sleep.
The last three days of GEMZ trading have been intriguing. As I mentioned last time, the whalepump effect did show up...but subsequent action has revealed the boost to be temporary. It took some time this time, but some happy holders did notice the elevated price and dumped enough to bring GEMZ back down below 10,000 satoshis. This pullback is something to remember if you're hoping for a whale to pump your favourite coin...or are tempted to try a little manipulation yourself. Real manipulation is a dark art: it depends on having direct access to a herd of credible pumpers who can effectively shill for the crypto. I'll confine myself to noting that successful manipulators are very much control freaks who run their pump operations with an iron fist. Beyond that, I'll say no more about the dark art. This snippet should be cautionary enough. Suffice it to say, it's wise of you to not hope for manipulation and it's even wiser of you to steer clear of any.
With that PSA out of the way
, I'd like to show you the four-day chart from Poloniex:
Someone who's conversant with the at-times-obscure art of chart-reading will recognize a familiar pattern in the above chart: an "ascending triangle" with a resistance level of 10,000 satoshis. In real time, this pattern was developed by those aforementioned happy dumpers meeting new buyers. The standard tea-leaf-reading guides say that an ascending triangle is bullish, and that an upwards run should be expected after the top side of the triangle has been breached. As the chart shows, it has already.
But that noted, GEMZ is having a hard time slogging upwards from 10,000 right now. Interest seems to be waning, making for a quiet market where some of the trades come from intersecting tradebots whose paths have crossed. The buybook is thinner than it was before that big 8 BTC buy at the asks, which makes sense: those buyers who met the dumpers had to come from somewhere. But right now, there is not a flood of new bidders that would thicken up the orderbook.
All of this adds up to a picture of a market that won't do much until we get more human intervention. Although the spread is much narrower than it has been recently, not many humans are biting - and the ones that are, are mostly minnows.
As I write this, the low as is 10,301 satoshis and the high bid is exactly 10,000. Accordingly, I'm leaving my NGFGemz orderpair in the NFD AE at 5100 NFD for the ask and 5000 NFD for the buyback bid. We'll see if the same quiet prevails tomorrow.