why?
because
A - big players already dumped? So if they did already they naturally would do it again.
B - because there is some real deep reason to be dumping right now that we don't know about?
C - just for jokes
or
D - because they think bitcoin is a fad and it's not on fire anymore, only a bubble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TuFy0fcuw&hd=1or
E - because they believe lucif and the general "look at the 2011" past crew and expect a long downtrend despite whatever might be "different this time"
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2352736or
F - something that I've clearly forgotten
Because they can't dump anything right now without the price dropping by 5 bucks right away?
you missed my point, I'm asking what their motivation might be for dumping in the first place.
The assumption that someone wants to sell a lot, and that the bids are too thin to allow them to sell as much as they want to at the price that they want to totally discounts whether or not someone might want to sell for a good reason in the first place.
A trendline broke, and there is SOME uncertainty in the air. But focusing on that discounts anything to the contrary.
Maybe the million dollar wall was rpetilia because he believed that price was great, maybe the sale that knocked us down was some guy who wanted to buy a nice car... who says there are more big whales desperately waiting to smash bitcoin to smithereens?
EDIT - yes, it's all about the trendline... after all, us humans do like to follow trends
perhaps a new (upwards) trendline will emerge that is less aggressive? who knows... it doesn't have to be some self fulfilling prophecy