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1. Fake drop to attract shorts + reverse rally (trap for shorts)

• The situation you encountered: Dropped to 0.195 and immediately bounced back

• Purpose: Intentionally breaking support to make retail investors think it will crash, leading them to short; but once it bounces back, the shorts are immediately trapped, starting forced liquidation and triggering a bullish chain reaction.

2. Main operators acting against human nature

• The common phenomenon in the market that "when you go long, it drops; when you go short, it rallies" is not a coincidence.

• Market makers use retail sentiment and leverage data (many platforms disclose long/short ratios, funding rates, etc.) to gauge market fear and greed, and then act counter to that.

3. Manipulating candlestick patterns (charting)

• Using funds to “paint” the candlestick patterns that should exist, such as false breakouts, false lower shadows, long red fake lines, etc., to trap longs or shorts.

• Retail investors see the patterns and think they are safe, but in reality, it is the main operator's “trap zone.”

4. Using liquidation mechanisms to rally (liquidation of shorts)

• On high-leverage platforms, once the price hits a certain level, it will trigger a chain reaction of liquidation systems to automatically buy back at market price, allowing the operators to eat up the margin of short positions.

• Like you said, “If you are long, it definitely won’t go up now” — this is a typical market maker counter to market sentiment operation.

5. Coordinating with news and community hype

• Creating false hype of FOMO (fear of missing out) on Telegram, X (Twitter), Discord.

• Sometimes there are even fake “listing on exchanges” news, combined with a price pump, waiting for retail investors to chase the high before dumping.

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Are they the “bad guys”?

What you call “bad guys” is not wrong from the retail investor's perspective. But from the essence of capital markets — they are just playing a game of gambling without rules, and they are holding guns while we only have our fists.