People are trading and traders are taking advantage of the swing in price. So it is normal to see price increase and drops at the same time. What isn't normal is if you see bitcoin price skyrocketed in a short span of time or get dumped and instantly lowering the price of bitcoin. There sure is happening and some manipulation is obvious. Else, 1 usd to 50 USD swing is normal in my opinion.
Bitcoin has been subject to manipulation from the time it got its very first exchange listing. Exactly this is what is attracting the attention from people.
But what I have been noticing is that when the price is going up in a nice pace, that people are somewhat okay with it.
But as soon as the price drops a few bucks, people seem to panic and ask for reasons as to why the price has gone down, and how much further it will drop.
They apparently don't seem to realize that when the price can go up like $50 in a short time, that it can go down that much equally as quick. Rookies.
Well it has been established that bitcoin market is almost always a manipulation, reason, when bitcoin is sitting idle in some prices, hype will come in, spreading news even if it was a few months ago and just adding more hype on it. Then when price go up, they can then spread fake rumors and start to sell their own coin to their own buy wall. People then follow. They panic because it is a human nature, and they are not succesful in how to control their emotion yet. Indeed they are Rookies. Else they will know how to read chart, how trend flows and they won't worry much when bitcoin price go down instead they will be happy because they will scoop alot cheaper bitcoin.