Have you ever heard of the Bart Simpson pattern? It’s when a chart jumps suddenly in one direction, chops sideways, and then snaps back to the previous level. Kinda funny, right? Well, maybe not. Bart patterns can actually signal market manipulation, and they’ve been appearing a lot lately. Aye carumba!
This video is going to answer the question on everyone's mind: is the crypto market being manipulated? And if so, who is behind it? And, when will it ever end? Video by Coin Bureau.
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Common Manipulation Tactics
-Pump-and-Dump Schemes: Coordinated efforts to artificially inflate the price of a low-liquidity token through hype (often on social media), followed by a coordinated sell-off that causes the price to crash.
-Wash Trading: The simultaneous buying and selling of the same asset by the same entity to create a false impression of high trading volume and demand. In 2019, a report by Bitwise Asset Management suggested that as much as 95% of Bitcoin's trading volume on unregulated exchanges might have been faked by wash trading.
-Spoofing and Layering: Placing large buy or sell orders without the intention of executing them, simply to create an illusion of demand or supply and influence other traders' decisions.
-Insider Trading: Individuals using non-public information for trading purposes, such as an exchange employee trading a token before its public listing announcement.
-Spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt): Spreading negative or misleading information to trigger panic selling, allowing manipulators to buy the asset at a lower price.
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