Its more than a bit arrogant to equate # of bitcoins with knowledge or intelligence in trading. It makes you sound small for suggesting it.
More big money is coming into this market and the amount of coins someone needs to "manipulate" it is becoming larger and larger.
Go ahead, dump 10k coins right now. Lets see where we are in 24 hours. I would suggest we would be at the same level or maybe higher.
You want to risk 10k+ coins to see if you can move the market down a few dollars from your average cost of coin sold? Ha. Ok, be my guest.
Unless there are a room full of 50k+ bitcoin owners strategizing together, then I doubt there is very much successful manipulation going on.
I mean, you were on here earlier today preaching bear to try to drive down the price and everyone saw right through your motivations right away.
But, lets do an open experiment. Choose an exchange. Dump 10k coins and see what you can buy them back for. I'd love to see this case study. It certainly would shut everyone the hell up for a while about manipulation and "whale power."
It is not
intelligence but the
resources and tools available for trading:
With
BTC10 trading capital you can pick opportunities that the elephants cannot. But the elephants can use their
BTC1,000 trading capital to manipulate the bid/ask volumes, erect small walls and do dumps. As for the large holders (
BTC100,000), the market is at their mercy when it is ripe for a correction, because they can do whatever they want. Only rule is that when they relinguish coins, the average price has to be higher than the buyback.
For this reason, based on the trend analysis, this was a good chance to go bearish. Even if I am wrong initially, sitting tight on this fiat position is all right because I know that bitcoins are a tad high atm, and only after 4 months they "should" be worth this much.
There may be collusion between some large owners, I don't know. But the same effect follows even if everybody just acts individually, trying to outsmart others.
I think
BTC100,000 manipulates this market more now than ever, because of the exchange situation... But I don't have such money to play with. Otherwise I think you are right.