Everyone’s asking why the market feels like it’s pumping one day and dumping the next
The truth is simple — it’s all demand & supply in action 🧘♂️
BTC has a fixed supply of 21M coins, so its movement is driven mainly by demand ETH doesn’t have a hard cap, but since the Merge + EIP-1559, it often acts deflationary because part of every transaction fee gets burned
That means: 👉When demand is stronger than supply → price pumps 👉When sellers dominate → price dumps
Altcoins? Even more wild, because token unlocks, emissions, and burns constantly shift supply alongside demand
So the recent chop in the market isn’t random ✅Liquidity inflows & positive news fuel demand → pump ✅Profit-taking, unlocks, and liquidations increase supply → dump
But here’s the part most people miss👇
Whales & market makers understand this cycle perfectly and they exploit it 👉Retail FOMOs the pump → whales sell into them 👉Retail panic sells the dump → whales buy it cheap
It’s never just random movement, it’s designed manipulation using demand & supply And those who don’t understand it end up buying high and selling low every time
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Everyone’s asking why the market feels like it’s pumping one day and dumping the next
The truth is simple — it’s all demand & supply in action 🧘♂️
BTC has a fixed supply of 21M coins, so its movement is driven mainly by demand
ETH doesn’t have a hard cap, but since the Merge + EIP-1559, it often acts deflationary because part of every transaction fee gets burned
That means:
👉When demand is stronger than supply → price pumps
👉When sellers dominate → price dumps
Altcoins? Even more wild, because token unlocks, emissions, and burns constantly shift supply alongside demand
So the recent chop in the market isn’t random
✅Liquidity inflows & positive news fuel demand → pump
✅Profit-taking, unlocks, and liquidations increase supply → dump
But here’s the part most people miss👇
Whales & market makers understand this cycle perfectly and they exploit it
👉Retail FOMOs the pump → whales sell into them
👉Retail panic sells the dump → whales buy it cheap
It’s never just random movement, it’s designed manipulation using demand & supply
And those who don’t understand it end up buying high and selling low every time
Don’t be one of them 🫵