$BTC $MOODENG

1. False Drop to Squeeze Shorts + Reverse Rally (Squeeze Shorts)

• Situation you encounter: Drops to 0.195 and immediately rebounds

• Purpose: Deliberately breaking support to make retail investors think it will crash, leading them to short; as a result, when it rebounds, the shorts are immediately trapped, triggering forced liquidations and a chain reaction of long positions rising.

2. Contrarian Operations by Major Players

• Common phenomenon in the market: "Whenever you go long, it drops; whenever you go short, it rallies"—it's not a coincidence.

• Market makers utilize retail sentiment and leverage data (many platforms disclose long/short ratios, funding rates, etc.) to assess market fear and greed, then operate contrarily.

3. Manipulating Candlestick Patterns (Charting)

• Using capital to “draw” the expected candlestick patterns, such as false breakouts, false lower shadows, long red traps, etc., to entice longs or shorts.

• Retail investors look at patterns thinking they are safe, but in reality, they are in the “trap zone” set by major players.

4. Utilizing Liquidation Mechanisms to Rally (Squeeze Shorts)

• On high-leverage platforms, once the price hits a certain level, it triggers the liquidation system to automatically buy back at market price, allowing major players to consume the margin of short positions.

• Like you said, "If you are going long, it definitely won’t rise now"—this is a typical contrarian operation by market makers against market sentiment.

5. Coordinating with News and Community Trends

• Creating false FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) heat on Telegram, X (Twitter), Discord.

• Sometimes there are even fake “listing on exchanges” news, coordinating with rallies, waiting for retail investors to chase high before dumping.

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Are they the "bad guys"?

The "bad guys" you refer to are indeed perceived as such from the retail investors' perspective. But from the essence of capital markets—they are just playing a game of unregulated competition, and they have guns while we only have fists.