Market makers' manipulation of retail investors has been meticulously detailed down to the pulse of every candlestick chart. Those seemingly random fluctuations are actually market makers testing retail investors' psychological defenses—as the veteran expert observed: "When emotions are disturbed, mistakes are inevitable; only when the mind is stable can one clearly see the traps."

Retail investors constantly harp on "buy low, sell high," yet they often panic over their losses during a decline, eager to sell at the slightest rebound. Once the market makers have quietly accumulated funds and created a large bullish candlestick to ignite market enthusiasm, retail investors, once again, will jump in, seizing the news that "everyone else is making money." Market makers understand this cycle all too well: first, they crash the market to create panic, forcing retail investors to sell their shares at a loss, then they pump the market up, signaling greed and luring retail investors to buy at high prices. In this cycle, retail investors' principal becomes profit.

Even more ruthless is their crackdown on "trend followers." Market manipulators spread "inside information" on social media, using a few fake accounts to create a buzz of an impending surge. They wait for retail investors, anxious about missing out and losing money, to rush in and buy, then reverse the trend and dump the market, instantly trapping those following the trend. These eager retail investors, driven by short-term fluctuations, trade frequently, hoping to make a quick buck, yet they fail to realize that every transaction fee and every price difference between buying high and selling low contributes to the market manipulators' profits.

The most devastating tactic is retail investors who don't set stop-loss orders. Market manipulators can clearly see the cost of retail investors' positions through market data. Once they detect a large number of retail investors holding large positions without stop-loss orders, they deliberately break through key price levels, forcing them to close their positions. Their panic selling then drives down the price, allowing them to buy at a lower price. Market fluctuations are natural, but retail investors' greed leads them to ignore the risks when chasing gains, and panic leads them to lose their rationality when selling at a loss. These two emotions have long become puppets in the hands of market manipulators. $BTC $ETH #加密市场回调