- Joined
- Nov 14, 2012
The Chinese do this every 6 months. A Whale will sell a huge amount of BTC, leading a dip of a few % points, leading nubile investors to follow suit, leading reactionary investors to follow suit. Eventually the price stabilizes once the market realizes the entire drop is emotional instead of for any real reason, and the Whale will buy up all BTC again with the money he made selling it.Sometimes, the price of stock will start to drop at a very high rate. This causes some people to sell off what they have. But the rapid price drop was only temporary, and quickly recovers. Thus, it is a "trap".
So if you sell $100m worth of BTC at $20k and then buy it all back at $14k, once it hits $20k again you've made over $42m doing nothing but shuffling cash around, but that money doesn't come from no where. You've basically stolen it from the people who can't ride the wave.
Which is why we do what, children? That's right. We ride the wave.