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legendary
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September 25, 2024, 02:45:11 PM
#33
We have seen that many times and not just happen to Polygon but also for other coins. When people thinks that the coin will jump so high because of many update from the project, they will buy as many amounts they can without think about how if the price is down so deep. Sometime the greediness attract them to buy more without think what will happen later especially when the price can reach the higher price. The greediness about making a big profit from the coin push them to keep buying without think much about the situation. They actually know that when the price suddenly increase so high, the price can back to lower price with fast and leaves people who already bought in a high price without notice. That makes many people lost their money and stuck in a high price without having a chance to sell at that time.
In short, a spike in price is only normal and happens too on other financial markets not just here on crypto. Update can sound an improvement but not all times. I've seen an update that also looks like a downgrade and people may not like it, resulting for the project to experience a slump in price. It would be better for them to read the updates first and think if it's a good one or not before they rush on buying. If the price rice, well great and this means they can now sell for profits. If they are aware that a sudden pump can also lead to a sudden dump (which is true) then that's good. It shows that they have an experience. They won't buy at highs and be like the others to get trapped.
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September 24, 2024, 05:42:00 AM
#32
This is a common scenario with new coins when listed in the exchanger. But this spike only takes a few minutes before their price trends normalize. Even though Polygon is not a new project, it is still experiencing the usual market reactions. That's why some project owners limit the number of coins available for sale—to maintain price momentum and prevent those big drops that frequently occur. 

That is why we really need to analyze carefully before buying coins. Sudden spikes aren’t usual, and they usually come with a significant drop in returns. Let’s not rush; rush decisions can lead to regrettable outcomes, which are very often to happen. 
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September 24, 2024, 03:26:33 AM
#31
This is not unusual in the cryptocurrency market.  It is normal for altcoins to fluctuate in value. But at the end of the day, it can be seen that these coins are pumped in the market at the beginning, but at the end of the day, they go back to their place. Then its value is stable. In most cases, those who take trades actually see a dump, but many go into panic mode and rush to sell what seems like more dumping. But it is seen that after some time it returns to its previous position and pumps. It can be just the opposite.
legendary
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September 23, 2024, 04:37:19 PM
#30
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That's the concept of the crypto market. Prices are very fundamental, it's hard to predict, falls and rises can happen suddenly, let alone trading methods, For this reason, every one of us who wants to trade crypto must consider it wisely and also analyze it appropriately to be protected from losses.

The crypto market is a market that is difficult to predict, especially regarding prices, many people suggest learning more before carrying out activities in the crypto market, because everything can just happen without notice and no one knows, especially about prices, so be careful when doing anything with crypto, so as not to lose.
Prices can spike suddenly, but behind it all there must be a trigger. The same thing when the price moves down quickly, the trigger must be there and it is clear that the trader will not get a notification that the price will change in the following hours. Every trader certainly needs to observe price movements in the market, some trading indicators definitely help, so they must still observe it even though they can actually execute it automatically if there is a stop loss or take profit feature.

An initial warning for every trader is: crypto trading activity is a high risk activity. Make sure you consider all the consequences wisely and every decision you make must be based on your own will. At least that's the warning on almost all exchanges, which is obviously important for novice traders to understand.
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September 23, 2024, 03:25:36 PM
#29
As you guys know, there was a Matic token swap to Polygon on Binance and other exchanges. Yesterday, Polygon got listed again on Binance but there was a sudden, unusual behavior. Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

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What you termed the "payment" of a thing is what I don't understand, and if anyone pays at that level, then such has been a victim of a "bucket shop". This is why we should wait for a while when a new listing is about to happen, otherwise, we may experience a situation like that.

However, I've investigated this kind of spike in exchanges when they just listed a new token or coin but there have never been any satisfactory reasons for it other than they just did as they liked even as they claim some factors if you asked them. With three exchanges listed at almost the same time, their charts of the token/coin would have different peaks and bottoms which can only suggest that they might be swindling people of their money at those levels (bucket shop), those prices (peak/bottom) are not real.
legendary
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September 23, 2024, 08:31:59 AM
#28
Why does such a sudden price spike happen?
That's the concept of the crypto market. Prices are very fundamental, it's hard to predict, falls and rises can happen suddenly, let alone trading methods, For this reason, every one of us who wants to trade crypto must consider it wisely and also analyze it appropriately to be protected from losses.

The crypto market is a market that is difficult to predict, especially regarding prices, many people suggest learning more before carrying out activities in the crypto market, because everything can just happen without notice and no one knows, especially about prices, so be careful when doing anything with crypto, so as not to lose.
hero member
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September 22, 2024, 04:47:07 AM
#27
I mean if the pump was a total about of $10-15k and selling order is $100k worth of coin, only the first set of people who placed sell order at 1$ will likely get triggered at price 1$ and exhausted the limit of $15k. That is to say that all exchange gives priority to first In line before the sharp drop to the original price. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes thats my initial thinking too as order based should be on first executed first but the chances of getting the higher price its very minimal incident only if theres a noob buyer who mistakenly for his order. Or also someone trying to experiment id his order will be hit and use a buy order on his set price. Can be also possible.
Good! I also have this idea though I don't if it works that way as well, let say the original price is 0.036$ and there are people who set a sell orders at 0.038$ to 0.9$ the system also executes starting from 0.036$ to 0.9$ and the limit is $15k and selling order is above that price then people who place such orders won't be triggered..
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September 22, 2024, 04:37:24 AM
#26
I mean if the pump was a total about of $10-15k and selling order is $100k worth of coin, only the first set of people who placed sell order at 1$ will likely get triggered at price 1$ and exhausted the limit of $15k. That is to say that all exchange gives priority to first In line before the sharp drop to the original price. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes thats my initial thinking too as order based should be on first executed first but the chances of getting the higher price its very minimal incident only if theres a noob buyer who mistakenly for his order. Or also someone trying to experiment id his order will be hit and use a buy order on his set price. Can be also possible.
hero member
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September 22, 2024, 04:21:42 AM
#25
Probably someone just made a wrong set of price and the higher limit price was set at $1 its good thing that some exchange reduces the potential limit to a lower bound since before theres a time that a high price or a lower price can be set and if anyone caught with that can get the order executed. This is not rare, many events a spike happened out of nowhere.
You are correct on this as I have also witnessed this as well with a coin at then, although all didn't triggered but few. What happened is that people who sets their orders at 1$ are above the selling price, I mean if the pump was a total about of $10-15k and selling order is $100k worth of coin, only the first set of people who placed sell order at 1$ will likely get triggered at price 1$ and exhausted the limit of $15k. That is to say that all exchange gives priority to first In line before the sharp drop to the original price. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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September 22, 2024, 02:50:29 AM
#24
Probably someone just made a wrong set of price and the higher limit price was set at $1 its good thing that some exchange reduces the potential limit to a lower bound since before theres a time that a high price or a lower price can be set and if anyone caught with that can get the order executed. This is not rare, many events a spike happened out of nowhere.
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September 22, 2024, 01:46:15 AM
#23
We have seen that many times and not just happen to Polygon but also for other coins. When people thinks that the coin will jump so high because of many update from the project, they will buy as many amounts they can without think about how if the price is down so deep. Sometime the greediness attract them to buy more without think what will happen later especially when the price can reach the higher price. The greediness about making a big profit from the coin push them to keep buying without think much about the situation. They actually know that when the price suddenly increase so high, the price can back to lower price with fast and leaves people who already bought in a high price without notice. That makes many people lost their money and stuck in a high price without having a chance to sell at that time.
legendary
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September 21, 2024, 10:22:52 PM
#22
can be attempt of price manipulation by setting order book on the high side of the price and artificially opening buy order to hit that price, or the liquidity is too thin like mentioned by many people, possibility of these playing out is endless in centralized exchange even more so in 3rd rate exchange with not so reliable people behind the company.

but such manipulation getting rarer because most of coin nowadays already have pre-market open to determine the real price and usually price spike like this won't last long or won't even be happening because the price discovery zone already being done when we're still in pre market granted pre market isn't necessarily reflecting the real price unlike in listing because many time the total supply of certain new coin is undisclosed until listing takes place.

CATI recent listing is prime example of that

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September 21, 2024, 05:59:14 PM
#21
Now this was my question before... Yeah have seen this a few times on other altcoins is this some kind of bug or manipulation?

I'm not familiar with how the market works like this so it's a bit ambiguous for me, maybe someone can enlighten me in detail so I know the reason behind it.

Sometimes btc is sold at a very low price from the normal market price? Is that someone doing that?

It's not really a bug. Someone actually paid that price before it got printed on the chart. There are a normal of reasons that can result in it but my money is on the one by @Wapfika:

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Short answer due to the thin liquidity on the orderbook

When POL was listed, there was not much liquidity in the orderbook and as thin as it is, it usually leads to wild volatility. Here's an example, if someone comes in and place a market order for POL but tiny liquidity in the orderbook from $0.37 to $1, everything is swept off till the $1 mark. But later on, other traders come in and decide the price is not worth paying for a dump it back now that there is sufficient liquidity on either sides to support it.
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September 21, 2024, 07:06:28 AM
#20
Ive seen this always happen when an exchange-listed a new coin and people hold a lot of it and they see an opportunity to make a quick flip of their asset, if its not into a reliable exchange there's a market manipulation such as other might get a honey pot and they cant make a pull out their investment anymore. Also if the demands are not going through this is the reason why its ideal if the projects have a good management so people will hold their coins like happens in the TON network before and now see the price of their coin after the dump of people who makes it farm. The value of the coin may varies on the project, and purpose of the coin but afterwards you will see those like a week or a month.
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September 15, 2024, 09:10:53 PM
#19
As you guys know, there was a Matic token swap to Polygon on Binance and other exchanges. Yesterday, Polygon got listed again on Binance but there was a sudden, unusual behavior. Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

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It is basically happens when Binance list any crypto currency, I assume that it is just for their test to make everything is working fine or not. no one is able to buy or sell at this price. 
hero member
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September 15, 2024, 05:58:45 PM
#18
Yeah, that's not new and it makes sense that someone would like to purchase above market price but what is unusual is that when someone sells below the market price and this has also happened for so many times. With such errors, it's about putting the number sell price unknowingly. But on OPs question, it's already been answered that there could be a lot of factors, aside from liquidity, it could be some folks trying to create some volume in there to make day traders awake at that very moment.
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September 15, 2024, 05:01:27 PM
#17
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

Short answer due to the thin liquidity on the orderbook.

This kind of price fluctuations occur if a huge market order was initiate while the orderbook doesn't have enough liquidity to absorb it. This cause a temporary price fluctuations that later on correct since the market maker will fill again order on the orderbook to correct the price.

This is common on tokens that has a surge volume of buyers that want to guy first or some deep pocket trader use market order in panic while they use a huge capital.
It doesn't even need huge market order, but just a faulty market maker bot messing up the liquidity momentarily. These days spikes like these are rare compared to crap we had to deal with back in time in crypto. Spikes and spreads were insane and anyone with enough money could absolutely destroy charts. Back in day in cexes you could set up buy orders to ridiculously high and low to catch these. Binance was the first one i saw that had limits on how high and low you can set them.

Dexes didn't even have cumulative buy and sell walls but you had to deal with specific buy and sell orders, making people buy and sell all over the map by mistake and messing up the chart.
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September 15, 2024, 04:49:55 PM
#16
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

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Market manipulated that's all I can think about as their are some whales that just like manipulating the market for their own gains. It could be the whale has bought alot at that price $0.39 and then he was trying to manipulate the price to $1 so he can sell off all his bag and make lots of profits. It could also be an innocent trader that didn't know that the market is being manipulated and he bought at that price hoping that the market was about to start pumping. This is why I don't buy tokens that are listed newly because they're always very volatile and alot of manipulation takes place. It's the lost to those that bought at $1 as the token might never go back to that price and they have to keep holding.
hero member
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September 15, 2024, 08:34:30 AM
#15
Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

I'm not sure if this is a strategy or a trader's mistake. What is certain is that the price returned to the initial price because the order at $ 1 has been filled and there are no more orders at the same price, which makes people who sell directly at the market price can be fooled.
you may often see this kind of thing in new token trading, which is more common in memecoins. surely something like that is intentional by certain parties to get attention. from their token holders.
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September 15, 2024, 05:14:20 AM
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No need to surprise to see that spike price because that will happen many times especially when altcoin season coming. Those people who buy at $1 are people who afraid they miss something so they still enter to market and buy that coin in any price. Perhaps some people use buy instant that coin because they think the price will still increase.

But unfortunately, the price is down and back to the price before and makes those people who buy at the high price is lost their money. That will happens to other coins when they see spike price and will think that they can make a big profit.
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September 14, 2024, 11:04:15 PM
#13
As you guys know, there was a Matic token swap to Polygon on Binance and other exchanges. Yesterday, Polygon got listed again on Binance but there was a sudden, unusual behavior. Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?
Every freebie like this often happens in the market, not only on Binance. If you look at the crypto market, this is nothing new. The analytical graph which has the potential to rise suddenly without realizing it in the near future will decline drastically because the crypto algorithm is not in line with the predictions according to the analysis. It's not a rare thing that candles change all the time, especially when new coins appear on the sales exchange. Most beginners when they see something like this panic and rush to take action, I think this is something that normally happens on large exchanges like Binance.
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September 14, 2024, 09:05:12 PM
#12
some people chasing market price at the first second of listing where there's not even that much supply to begin with, as a result their buy order hits the ceiling price, it's very normal occurrence in a new market where there's still no equilibrium, you would expect that some people are just that hasty in making decision.

you'd see same thing in every newly open pair, heck even in twitter there were times when the exchange's side exposed selling coin at really high price taking advantage of this loophole.
the crypto market at the first minutes of opening is always wild west, it's pure price swing that could go from up 500% all the way to minus 500%.
hero member
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September 14, 2024, 06:02:30 PM
#11
As you guys know, there was a Matic token swap to Polygon on Binance and other exchanges. Yesterday, Polygon got listed again on Binance but there was a sudden, unusual behavior. Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

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I think this is usually from the project owner to attract more attention to people while it got listed, what you should know is that this is something very common to exchange especially with centralized exchange. I could also remembered then when a coin I was holding spike to something else and it was a dream to me and I kept asking why didn't I placed a sell order when they opened deposit as then include had made some x before the price drop to the original price or a more stabilized price.
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September 14, 2024, 05:07:49 PM
#10
How exactly did you know that some guy bought it for $1?
Honestly, this is normal for newly listed coins someone could set a limit sell order at $1 like others said above market makers are the ones who set it at $1 and since it's not only one guy other market makers will fill the gap as a sample I put a limit sell order at $1(Not the average price of matic from all exchanges) and you put a limit sell order at $0.5 in just a few seconds until someone again fills the gap of $0.39 then that's a spike.
So it's normal for a newly listed coin and if someone bought it at $1 price then the one who made already made a profit but filling these gaps is pretty fast since there are many traders on Binance.
hero member
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September 14, 2024, 04:59:10 PM
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Now this was my question before... Yeah have seen this a few times on other altcoins is this some kind of bug or manipulation?

I'm not familiar with how the market works like this so it's a bit ambiguous for me, maybe someone can enlighten me in detail so I know the reason behind it.

Sometimes btc is sold at a very low price from the normal market price? Is that someone doing that?

Most at times people usually attribute it to sales by bots but the sharp drop of this is not even caught by the boys as we put them to be. The valid reason I think is when the tokens are given to exchanges with their own given tokens as liquidity included the exchange list it at that ATH and to avoid the sale at this price by many investors they quickly withdraw or sell off their own. This is similar to when shitcoins that are built on the decentralized exchanges are rugged.

The price fall off sharply when a large amount of the token is taking off and with the speed at which this happens it is only the developers or the exchange that can pull this off. So I think it is the withdrawal of some liquidity to Fend off any mass sell that will totally crash the token to zero that is the reason
legendary
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September 14, 2024, 04:48:30 PM
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Sometimes btc is sold at a very low price from the normal market price? Is that someone doing that?

Of course there is, someone coming in with hundreds of bitcoin can do that on one exchange especially if the orderbook is low. This has happened to centralized exchanges before, but I forget what the name of the exchange was.

For initial listing prices, long candles are always present. It only ranged for a few miliseconds, who knows what exactly happened but I think it was just a momentary spike in the hot zone. You can notice when binance will open trading on a new asset coming to their exchange, look at the first candle because I'm sure the long green candle will be there.

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September 14, 2024, 04:14:10 PM
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Now this was my question before... Yeah have seen this a few times on other altcoins is this some kind of bug or manipulation?

I'm not familiar with how the market works like this so it's a bit ambiguous for me, maybe someone can enlighten me in detail so I know the reason behind it.

Sometimes btc is sold at a very low price from the normal market price? Is that someone doing that?
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September 14, 2024, 11:25:08 AM
#6
As you guys know, there was a Matic token swap to Polygon on Binance and other exchanges. Yesterday, Polygon got listed again on Binance but there was a sudden, unusual behavior. Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

Hmm, this is not one of the rare events it's quite usual, whenever a coin gets listed a battle between the buyers and sellers gets started due to high volume and liquidity, sot hat the reason such huge spikes appear, in more than 90% of coins you can see such spikes and even in more.

If it is only concerned with spikes, not with the initial ones there can be several reasons, Platform Manipulation, Whale activity, short-term squeezing, and Events boost. But all of this happens with the change in volume and liquidity of any particular coin.
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September 14, 2024, 10:43:54 AM
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This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?
This is not new and I only surprised that why you waited a long time to ask this question.

My answer can be wrong, but correct me if anyone feels it is wrong. This dumping candle can be explained like at the start of trading, of this trading pair, the company team sets up that sell order, and self-fills it by their small buy order. The order size can be small like a minimal amount on Binance, I remember it is $10. Then they let it has a free fall to lower price range, it is easy.

I don't know about Binance, but on other exchanges (smaller than Binance), when you want to list your coin on their exchanges, you will need to have fund requires for liquidity: the token and a stable coin, if the trading pair for listing is token / stable coin. You know with this available token and stable coin, the project team can do such fake candle easily.
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September 14, 2024, 10:22:03 AM
#4
Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?
Your chart is 15 minutes chart. I want to use 1 second chart but it was difficult for me to scroll back to the beginning of the chart. So I use 1 minute chart. If you use 1 second chart, you will still notice something similar that it would be done in a way that no one will neither gain nor lose.



That price increase will occur at the start of trading and it is fake than what the exchanges let you see. Nobody will be able to buy and sell at that high price.
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September 14, 2024, 10:18:07 AM
#3
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

Short answer due to the thin liquidity on the orderbook.

This kind of price fluctuations occur if a huge market order was initiate while the orderbook doesn't have enough liquidity to absorb it. This cause a temporary price fluctuations that later on correct since the market maker will fill again order on the orderbook to correct the price.

This is common on tokens that has a surge volume of buyers that want to guy first or some deep pocket trader use market order in panic while they use a huge capital.
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September 14, 2024, 10:13:24 AM
#2
Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

This is not actually the first time that this kind of trades is taking place, it usually happen especially on binance exchange as I have observed it a few times. As of last year, there was also a spike in the price of Bitcoin where some sold for a very high price (more than 30%) of the current price, I believe it's the buyer that makes such mistake by setting a buy order at a high price and if there's also a seller's order that match that of the buyer, it's going to execute. Just uncommon mistakes that few people make at time.
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September 14, 2024, 09:25:45 AM
#1
As you guys know, there was a Matic token swap to Polygon on Binance and other exchanges. Yesterday, Polygon got listed again on Binance but there was a sudden, unusual behavior. Matic's price was nearly 0.39 USD and someone paid up to 1 USD per token and then the price went down to normal price again.
This isn't something new of course, I have seen it many times but I don't really understand why such spikes happen. Why would someone pay $1 on Matic when he or she could buy tons of it for only $0.39?

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