Admittedly Bitcoin could move upward, however the trend for the last four months has been by and large a series of bulltraps / and beartraps – market makers exchanges etc. Ostensibly push the price upward just passed a logical area of resistance and sell off. This chart poses the possibility of the “Bart Simpson Pattern” aka swing failure – aka “pump and dump”

I pose the question in the title: “is there really demand right now?” This crosses my mind as if I was a whale and was going to buy a lot of bitcoin , I would’ve bought it 3 to 5 days ago, and I would be at least selling some of it as the price is going up now along with miners ect. (if I bought it on spot) – however in futures- if I was a market maker, mining cartel, long time holding whale- I would use some of my own bitcoin as collateral in futures and I would mark up the price myself with high leverage(long futures contracts), as the price increased I would slowly sell into it via spot, then I would short in futures- I’d win three ways (..wait, Whaa?! three ways? is that even possible)

This is all speculation based on my perception of what I would do to use my advantage in the market.

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