I am not creating this post to engage in argument but to voice my opinion. To some some people, trading competition is a good strategy to increase the prices of coins, at first it may appeared so but in the end, trust me, it is the surest path to crash. Every single person in trading competition is there to make profit, no one is ready to lose, everyone is waiting to pull out at the slightest opportunity either to make profit or to stop loss. Now you know why the price of such coin will go down below normal. It might also interest those participating in trading competition to know that it might also be a way to dump on you. No one is saying you shouldn't take part in trading competition but be smart. Everything that appeared to have advantages have also got disadvantages. I asked if is a plus or minus, I guess you know the answer by now.
Trading competition seams a two way thing but I'll go with plus because it's main aim is to introduce the project to a wider audience of traders and nearly every time a trading competition is organized by projects especially upon a new listing, a lot of traders becomes aware of it and start using it for trading
For developers who are working with this strategy, bringing investors and traders by means of such competitions might work
for the short run, though its also possible that it can harmed the project itself
once the dumped started, and manipulations can't be avoided due to traders who
knows how to work with people sentiments.