Yes! They manipulate the price, this is done by bots, as far as I know...

One night, I decided to open a short position at #zil . I opened it at 0.01255, set a stop loss at 0.01261, and a take profit at 0.0124. Ideally, by morning, it should have reached the expected value. Waking up in the morning, I saw that there were no orders, which means the trade was closed, and the current price at that moment was #zil at 0.01225. I thought, okay, the forecast was correct. However, upon checking the orders, I noticed that the position was closed at the stop loss; it would have been fine if it weren't for the peak of the candle, which was the local maximum of that evening, exactly 0.01261.
Here are 2 options: either it was a hard coincidence, or someone is manipulating the price smoothly, seeing where the stop losses are to take out small traders.