Bitcoin trading calls

The guy just "sitting on his hands" as he said (and probably his thumb too) got nothing better to do than talk shit and add nothing of value

Dont be like Quan, guys. Low level individual

Yes, nothing manipulative about markets moving to important stop levels during the time of day with least amount of liquidity

Comes in here, talks shit, then hightails out of here as fast as he arrived.

Im open to criticism, but at least state your case why I'm wrong or stupid.

Sorry, on a bit of a rant here, but always be skeptical of anyone on here:
1)saying they've been trading for long time but just signed up yesterday
2)with their email in profile
3)with only 1 subscription to another member (who is a commercial member)
4)boasts of great skills and is arrogant (market fixes that and every great trader I've ever read about was humble....the market will humble us all)


Probably more im missing but those are big red flags

Well now I just put him on ignore so now he WON'T be able to respond. He had his chance and chose to run away.

Dont want to do that, but some people just earn it

Weekend low reached.
Would have just bought the hammer but the Nasdaq is falling.

We're close, very close i think

Right here is where I'm looking to buy. Just want to see how it reacts around there first

Just to be clear, traders for large banks and institutions DO MANIPULATE PRICES. This is not a theory of mine. Large banks have been fined for this. There was a big story about it probably about 10 or 15 years ago. Was a big fine involving traders from major banks

To think this doesnt occur is to be ignorant, and to be smug about it is just too much for me to take

I asked Grok to find me that news story, and here it is....




The main story matching your query is the 2015 foreign exchange (forex/FX) manipulation scandal. Around May 20, 2015 (roughly 11 years ago, fitting "around 10 years ago"), regulators in the US, UK, and elsewhere announced massive fines and criminal guilty pleas against several of the world's largest banks. Their traders had colluded for years to rig benchmark currency prices in the enormous ~$5 trillion-a-day global forex market.
bbc.com
What happenedTraders at these banks used private, invitation-only electronic chat rooms (nicknamed things like "the Cartel," "the Mafia," or "the Bandits") to share confidential customer order information and coordinate trades. They deliberately manipulated key benchmark rates, especially the daily 4 p.m. London "fix" (the WM/Reuters closing rate used by businesses, investors, and funds to value multi-currency holdings).
bbc.com
A common tactic was "building ammo" or "banging the close": a trader would build up a huge position in a currency pair and then aggressively buy or sell right before/during the 30-second fix window to push the benchmark rate in a direction that benefited their own (or the group's) positions, while exiting at a profit. This happened almost daily between roughly 2007–2013 (with some activity into 2012–2014). One trader at a bank reportedly said, “the less competition the better.”
nytimes.com
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch described it as: “Almost every day” for five years, traders used these chat rooms to manipulate exchange rates, harming “countless consumers, investors and institutions around the world.” New York’s financial regulator called it a brazen “heads I win, tails you lose” scheme to rip off clients.
bbc.com
Banks involved and the finesIn the May 2015 wave (following earlier 2014 penalties), the banks paid a combined total of about $5.7 billion (£3.6 billion) in fines—the largest set of antitrust penalties ever issued by the US Department of Justice at the time. Four banks pleaded guilty to felony charges:

1. Barclays — fined ~$2.4 billion total (biggest single hit; also the highest UK Financial Conduct Authority fine at the time).
2. Citigroup — ~$925 million criminal fine (the largest-ever single Sherman Antitrust Act penalty).
3. JPMorgan Chase — hundreds of millions.
4. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) — hundreds of millions.

UBS pleaded guilty to related benchmark-rigging charges. Bank of America was fined $205 million by the Federal Reserve for unsafe practices (it didn’t plead guilty but still faced penalties for failing to stop similar trader conduct). The Federal Reserve separately fined the group more than $1.8 billion for poor oversight.
federalreserve.gov
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and other regulators had already imposed over $1.4 billion in late 2014, so the cumulative total was even higher.
cftc.gov
Why it matteredThe forex market was lightly regulated compared to stocks or bonds, and banks treated it as a low-risk profit center after the 2008 crisis. The scandal showed how easily traders could collude with almost no detection for years. It led to internal reforms, trader firings (Barclays sacked eight people), and ongoing probes. Some banks’ shares actually rose on the news because the fines were seen as “less bad than feared.”This was one of the biggest post-crisis bank scandals alongside the earlier LIBOR interest-rate rigging cases (which also had 2015 fines, like Deutsche Bank’s $2.5 billion settlement in April 2015). But the forex one specifically involved traders actively manipulating prices in the spot currency market through collusion.
en.wikipedia.org
If this isn’t the exact story you had in mind (e.g., if it was a specific trader’s arrest or a different commodity like precious metals), feel free to give more details like the bank name or exact year! Key contemporary articles include the BBC’s “Record fines for currency market fix” (May 20, 2015) and The New York Times’ coverage the next day.

This is just the time they actually got caught. Im sure they promised to never do stuff like this ever again, pinkie swear!

Forex "lightly regulated".
And Bitcoin is so heavily regulated there's no way anyone could get away with such a thing.
Gimme a fucking break

He got under your skin eh?

Why 73813 area?

Being so wrong and so smug about it. Just want to smack someone like that don't ya??

Cooking dinner right now, will post the charts later, but basically a bunch of things lining up there

Markets are manipulated, its a fact. Doesn't mean there's no chance for us retail, but best to recognize it