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I detected it, still haven't actually found news of it...

It was weird, I was playing Sunday morning and a weird thing started happening... I started losing!


I was like... how, my strat is sound, it's a grinding strat that plays on not being greedy.

So I started looking into it, and I noticed all the graphs were moving exactly the same. They were being pushed by an algorithm in the background. Historical data says it's always being pushed by an algorithm, but sometime on Sunday, they turned the tanking algorithm on (You can see it in the graphs, it shows up as noise over a certain section).

Then it made me focus on what was going on, and I noticed the wall behaving peculiar... it was moving the money weird, like it was building giant high cliffs on almost every push... and it was only letting you buy or sell at market, or what ever it minor amount the people managed to push it. Any play outside of market was instantly gobbled up by the algorithm, so that's pretty much all you got... there was no pushing for extra margins...

Then I got memorized and started watching the algorithm (lost a little money cause I thought I pulled my stack out but didn't... more on that later).

So I start comparing charts... you could look at any low volume chart and see exactly what the algorithm was doing... like iota or some other low volume coin... then you could see the manipulation in real time... it was doing it to every single coin... moving them all in the exact same way.

Then I realized... it was drawing sharks (I think the algorithm is always on, it always draws sharks).

What it was doing on Sunday though was sinister... first, it wouldn't let you make any play outside market price... well it would, but only if it was favorable to it.

Second... it kept making shark patterns (I don't know what they're really called, they look like sharks, and generally leads to a big wave of buy and sell. Here's where the sinister part is... if you looked at the hour or half hour graph, it had an up bottom line (the top line was the truth teller though).

On the minute line, when you looked at it, it was down hill sharks all the way with every wave not reaching the height of the last. What's that mean? If everyone thinks it's going up, they're going to play the splashes right? Playing splashes are fun... these were not fun, they were just eating peoples money on this shallow azz slope that it shifted. The lines were setup in a way that if you bought, then sold at the high, then bought on the line (at market price remember), you ended up losing money.

Back to the lesser coins... on the coins, you could see the fake resistance (seriously, there's no resistance if nobody is playing it). You can see exactly where the manipulation points were.

It made fake w's then quickly pushed them to head and shoulders.

It made dojis on the day chart at the bottom of dips to signify longs were safe... this one f*cked a lot of people I'm sure.

The algorithm was sinister... There was more. I learned more about analyzing stock charts because of this detection than I would have otherwise.

The one that definitively proved it though.. I was playing ada before I detected it (that's what I accidentally left my stack in, oops)... then hit a wall at 1.06... the wall refused to budge, buying everything that came up to it.

It had a little tongue at the bottom... it actually made a motion like... come on, you know what time it is... hand it over (you think I'm f*cking with you, it really did that). Then once it gobbled up everything up to 1.12, it just went down a giant cliff, I was like oh f*ck, let me sell what ever is in there (my whole stack was in there lol), so I sold.

Don't believe me, go look at your coin prices.

And this: https://decrypt.co/58678/bitcoin-retreats-from-1-trillion-as-market-sees-300-billion-sell-off

Not true... I watched in real time what really happened. That money was yanked from people from the market... then sold.

It just occurred to me, they might do the opposite if everyone thinks the big shorts coming. I'll probably put a few hundred in on Thursday night and see what happens to it.

That's 6 cents more than Ben has...

This is like listening to someone explain why they play a certain slot machine a certain way and it always wins and then asks if they can have five bucks...

No, what I saw was real. You been warned (I know you don't play).

I can tell exactly on the graphs to see the noise of where they turned it on. I can tell you where the 1.06 cliff was (or you can just go look... it was when it first dropped to 1.06). It rebounded some, but.... it was playing pacman the whole way.

The algoithm got turned on at the super doji on sunday morning.

You play the game you take your chances

what's bitecoin?


what's cryptic currency?

who's "they"?

All my money is in pie futures

Them basturds!

Let me ask you this... what would the charts have looked like if, rather than an intervention by algorithm, there was a coordinated withdraw from the crypto market?

For instance, let's say a few months back some guy decided he was going to make money in crypto currency... so he gets 100 friends to invest with him... they all invest in the same currencies and they all buy and sell simultaneously...

On the other end, these guys are spreading the word about how smart it is to invest in crypto... they're on reddit, they're on twitter, they're even on cbid...

keep in mind, they're already invested, so the more people they can convince to buy in, the more money their crypto is worth.... and the more their crypto is worth, the more word spreads about how valuable these currencies are and the more people are willing to invest...

it's a beautiful cycle! But only if you're the guy or one of his hundred friends...

Because one day the guy is gonna decide the imaginary balloon is getting too close to popping.... and he's gonna bail on the whole crypto market... and his 100 friends are going to do the same thing at the same time...

And like all pyramids, when you remove the bottom layer the whole thing comes crashing... may take days or weeks or months even... but the other layers will eventually realize the weight they're bearing and they too will bail...

Moral of the story: the guy and his hundred friends are gone... they've taken the money they made off of people who believe the hype and placed it safely back in the stock market... but they'll be back and they'll make sure to let you know when they are... right after they buy their shares...

I get what you're saying, you should be sceptical... I'm making a big claim.

You saw the way I play, I'm engaged. I detected the anomalies. I'm literally playing it like a video game.

Asvab, 99.9 percentile in pattern recognition.

Take that as you will. I saw what I saw.

I do too... that's why I cash out when I'm done playing. To me it's more like a video game...

A video game that has the potential to spit out cash.

You do realize what I do for a living don't you?

I have a deep understanding of software systems.

I know what I saw. I suspect it's going to keep tanking through Friday morning. That's when the shorts are due.

Ya ya, I get it... don't believe me, I don't care. Pretty sure fgm believes me... but he's probably the only one.

Interesting chart comparison though. I don't think bitcoin is hacked, I believe it's line is dictated by algorithms built by big money guys.

I believe the algorithms are always on... they are always pushing it towards a destination for a specific goal, you just have to know what side the money is on and play accordingly.

True... I am not a pro crypto trader... I am very adept at spotting anomalies though.

There can only be anomalies if there's a set pattern and neither the stock market nor the crypto market follow established patterns...

Picking out trends in historical data is not a new thing. Now, if you can predict the future you might have something.

tirty NINE!

I didn't detect the anomalies on the charts right away... I detected while in game.

The depth chart was acting funny. It wasn't acting how it usually does. It was restacking money un-naturally.

There was a huge gap in every single spread where it moved in a way that you could only achieve market price. You could literally see the walls restacking themselves to move you in the direction it wanted you to go...

The chart position I gave was the exact position where the wall stacked up and gobbled money... you don't have to believe me.

Again... I know I sound crazy.

Just like a shiny gold ingot?
Actually, I have absolutely zero understanding of whatever the hell you guys are talking about.
Could you explain it to me like I was a 5th grader?

It’s electronic Monopoly money that you can actually trade for a chicken.

I would think the block chain would prevent most anomalies or make them obvious and as a result moot.

Are you suggesting the anomaly is with the exchange itself or across unaffiliated currencies?