Why does it have to be manipulation?
I remember that an Israelian and and American University found proof that parties sold all the time to each oters and pumped up prices strongly. The speaker in the video that is part of a link I posted earlier spoke about this practice too.
Why not just cashing out with common sense? When you are up gazillion % and the price goes vertical, you better get out. Also, if whales do communicate, why would they share their intentions? After all if I intend to sell, I don't want 4-5 other whales to sell at the same time, further depressing the price...
I watched a few big wallets and several of them have huge losses. But they might as well have sold to another wallet of themselves... splitting the losses over several wallets. Somebody should analyze all the blockchains and things would be more clear I think.
