I am not an analyst nor a good writer myself but there is something not really good about that piece is written, seems to be very amateurish and this is actually a trend in many crypto-related online publications, there is that glaring lack of professionalism and finesse. Anyway, the topic is all about manipulation but then again there is nothing new or surprising with this. Manipulations have been the bread and butter of many traders and as long as the market is reacting according to their wishes, then so be it. And if manipulations can result into Bitcoin rising, I am all supporting the manipulators as they are working for my own commercial interest as well without me paying them even a cent as a salary. Now, if Bitcoin can be going down because of these manipulators then I will just be cool and relaxed as there is nothing I can do to sop them since they are not under my payroll. In other words, I don't have time to care of what manipulators are doing, let them have their day anytime.

I don't think its purely manipulated simply because there are some traders who bought at the level of $8k and for them to make profit they sold early when we hit the $10k level last week. Whales can pump and dump the market, this is not new and I support traders who are making money in just a short period of time. If I were to trade, I will also play short because its the best way to make money right now, the pump and dump is good for them.

Price manipulation can't be prevented in the market. I also have noticed high trading volume in the past week and it's either manipulation or just pure demand and attention bitcoin has been getting with the recent news about adoption. Still though, it's quite impressive that it retains somewhere near $9k region and with the anticipated bitcoin halving, I'm also postive it would reach higher prices and break current resistance levels.

Traders buy and later decide to sell in order to make profits and that's just the way it is even in stocks and forex trading and unfortunately that also let's the price goes down when a lot of traders tend to sell at the same time which makes the value plummets.

Who else will manipulate the Bitcoin price if not the traders themselves?  That is a reaction to the OP's linked article.  It is not surprising that every trades are manipulated for a simple reason of gaining advantage to get more profits against the other traders. The simple setting a buy wall and sell wall is already a manipulation in favor to the person who is putting that order.

The large traders are intentionally trying to lower the price of bitcoin for buying cheap. The recent rise and falls are due to whales buying coins on a low price and not buying on larger price. On every cycle they are accumulating bitcoin and they'll dump it when the real manipulation starts.

Bitcoin price manipulation often occurs on the market, usually the whales who have large capital to make
price manipulation. Which can make the price of bitcoin suddenly go up or even suddenly go down. They
do it its purpose manipulation makes people become FOMO when prices go up and will buy bitcoin at high
prices. The opposite make people panic sell when prices fall. So from that when we enter the market do
a variety of analysis to be able to distinguish which is the original pump or down. We must not be exposed
to the trap of price manipulation by Whale.

This manipulation has become stronger since the CME and CBOE had opened. It gave rich businessmen a way to play with the price buying OTC and dumping on smaller, yet important exchanges like Bitstamp or doing the same thing the other way round to pump the price. At the same time half of their money is in futures where they're safely making money.

Don't panic people and don't follow manipulated trades. It's not a market trend when someone all of a sudden dumps a million dollars.

It is no big secret    that markets are being manipulated by traders with big pockets. This is not unique to Bitcoin, because it happens with

every other trade-able commodity or shares out there. There are even organized cartels out there that are doing this on a full time basis, even with

old traditional investment options like Gold and Silver and Oil. In Bitcoin it is just so much easier, because a lot of exchanges are not regulated and

whales are trading large amounts on these exchanges to manipulate the price.

Yes we need to go really active and stay focused so that we could make a right move as we can afford to win when the value increases by multi folds and at the same time we cannot risk losing our investment if the value dump as everyone wants to make profit through the market volatility and price manipulations.