Since a few weeks $BTC and other main coins like $ETH $SOL and $XRP are following a consistent pattern. They suddenly bounce up 4%, 5%, 7%, giving everyone the illusion that the market is healing, but then all of them retract, quickly losing what they had with much effort gained. I read many analyses about it. Accumulation, stabilization , positioning, preparation...My opinion is this: institutions and financial powers might not be able to completely manipulate the market, but 10% is definitely within their reach. Making Bitcoin and other main altocoins jump 5% easily satisfies two aims: wipe out the money from short positions in a single strike, and make traders want to open new long positions (everyone gets excited and believes there will soon be a rally). In turn, money from these long positions is wiped out when, in a day or two, there is a new fall of - 4 to - 8%. Repeat this a few times, and a reasonable number of traders have been squeezed enough to fill the right pockets. After all, remember, markets are just places where money changes ownership.