Whales alert had shown that they are the market manipulators as it has clearly tells they decide what happen to the general market, as at today and few days back, they have been moving funds from various destinations either to dump and take their profit, sometimes they mop the market for personal gains. They're the major problem the cryptocurrency community has and if nothing is done they will continue manipulating the entire market. Hope the Bitcoin halving goes as well and as history to repeat itself. Few months ahead of the big event to surface, hope you have stash your coins for profit?.
I'm not sure what you mean here, it's never been clear. Always, just as the nature of the market itself, speculative. I mean, I've seen myself the evidence of whale movements, spoofing bots etc. but when I personally sell or buy, those things do not affect me, and I can't see the clear correlation at all, especially when whales buy and prices go down.
If they're really manipulating the market, why are people still getting into it? If you believe, like some states do, or regulators, why are you buying into Bitcoin?