How many crypto have you sold since Trump tariffs shenanigans?
$100 worth? $1,000? $10,000? Or over $100,000?
I'll tell you for free that most people have not sold anything close to $1,000 because why would anyone sell a long-term position at a -30% loss?
I mean actual individual investors, not companies who may be required to maintain a certain valuation for their portfolio and these cases are very few in crypto right now.
The question now is, if you didn't sell and I didn't sell, who sold?
If we're being honest, the crash we've experienced in crypto of recent should generally not be too moving for most of us here as we've always had this much volatility, but since we do have someone to blame this time, unlike many other times in the past, that's why everyone seems to be throwing a couple of tantrums and that includes me.
If anything, what's really worth talking about, in terms of a market crash, is stocks, because whether we like it or not, they play a huge role in the stability of our already messed up economies and significant movements such as recently could be very damaging.
My peak highlight from everything that has happened so far is that people are now just realizing that stocks actually don't have that much bid-side liquidity, hahaha.
I mean, how do you crash $2T in a day, then add $4T in the next?
Certainly, I'm aware of how market capitalization works but it's still funny. The true inflow and outflow being smaller does not change the fact that these things can actually swing hard as memecoins swing daily.
Hell, even “utility coins” swing just like this, but let's use the memecoins reference because that makes it a whole lot funnier.
How do you feel knowing your favorite stock is not very different from a memecoin with this display of volatility? I guess traditional finance has been living a fake life?
That said, what's interesting however, is the volumes in stocks.
You look at a stock like AAPL and the 24hrs volume is about $16.12B, ETH is literally doing more volumes than a $2.86T marketcap company, currently the most valuable in the world and we haven't even looked at perpetual volumes yet!
Something has to be wrong somewhere, no?
Moving trading on-chain fixes crypto’s instability
Stocks are an actively regulated asset, attempts at market manipulations I'll assume can be more easily penalized.
We can't say the same for crypto when centralized exchanges shield market makers and institutional players doing the manipulation.
Sure, it would always sound like a conspiracy when anyone talks about CEXs and market makers manipulating crypto prices for their benefits but until you can proof that there are actual individual traders that actively come online and trade billions away for several memecoins, then new utility coins, then scam coins, then dino coins, then Bitcoin, I'd rather be called a conspiracy theorist.
It's not that hard to figure that these volumes we report on daily are 80-90% wash trading actively baiting unsuspecting investors and traders, how else do you think these guys make money?
Why would they provide liquidity to your shit tokens if they don't intend to move the price up and dump on you?
It's not rocket science, it's the nature of the business.
But, moving most crypto trading on-chain will bring a bit of stability because it's going to be difficult to manipulate a market when everyone can actually see that, that's exactly what you're trying to do.