Question:

If 80% are afraid to buy at the peak, and 15% believe in further growth, how do manipulators shake everyone out? What is the third scenario?

Answer:

Manipulators introduce a third scenario — a prolonged flat with unpredictable spikes, like a “saw-saw.” The price hovers at one level but sharply jerks up and down, without a directed trend. As a result:

— Those who were waiting for a dump get tired, lose focus, and start entering late — they get caught by the saw.

— Those who bought “just in case” suffocate from zero dynamics and losses on altcoins.

— Margin traders die first — because stop losses are triggered both up and down.

Everyone burns out, they sell off by themselves, without violence. This is exactly what manipulators need — not to hammer the market, but to dry up patience, faith, liquidity. Only then, when everyone has exited, does the real movement happen — already without the crowd and without witnesses.

Conclusion: the third scenario is neither a pump nor a dump, it is a crafty psycho-meat grinder, where the patient, not the smart, survives.