Idea! let's start a Pumping group! This way a lot of people will buy a ridiculous amount of a penny coin, so its price will skyrocket and, through a meticulously placed number of sell orders, they will buy them from ME!
But... people will accuse me of making a profit, by arbitrarily choosing a coin I have interests in. What can I do?
Let's see. I need to make the choice of the coin seemingly random, but I need to force a way to control it... That's it! Let us say that the coin will be chosen amongst a group of 16 coins (but let's not disclose the list until a couple minutes before the coin is chosen).
I just need to buy some ridiculous amount of those coins and place sell orders in all of them. Then I just need to resell those that are not chosen "randomly" right after the pump. Even if i lose 5-10% in reselling them, I will have made anywhere between 300% and 1000% from the coin we pumped!
How's that for a magic trick?
What you suggests could be a way to make profit but its actually a way to cheat the system and because the backlash of such move could ventually affect those who don't know the game works like someone coming into crypto the first time ended up being unfortunate because of your action this could discourage him then we lose another potential soul in the crypto world. Aside that, to pull something like this will mean enough capital where most alt coming out would have pre-mined as much as 1 million units before coming to the space which means to buy a value that will make a difference will not be cheap.