2026-01-21 02:23:35

The movement of $RIVER reveals an interesting phenomenon—despite the overall market decline, this coin maintains an upward trend, frequently spiking higher. The manipulation tactics are quite straightforward: 90% of the chips are controlled by the market makers, and the rise and fall depend entirely on their decisions.

According to market logic, the night before the volume surge on the 22nd is a critical window. Market makers need to complete high-level distribution before the volume increase, but there's an awkward situation—95% of retail investors are shorting, with short positions piling up, making it impossible for the market makers to unload their holdings. To escape this situation, the market makers have only a few tricks: continuously shake out the weak hands through wash trading, create holding costs with high transaction fees, and then stimulate short covering by pushing prices up.

For short players, this situation is indeed frustrating. The cost of capital is a prolonged battle, and a single spike can be deadly. The purpose of the market makers pushing prices up is both to liquidate short positions and to induce more buying. In this completely unequal chips game, the risks are clearly laid out.

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ConsensusDissenter

· 13h ago

90% of the chips are in the hands of the big players, what’s the point of playing, just a pure leek-cutting game Retail investors are still shorting, the big players must be laughing to death This is the crypto world, always a game of capital Just a quick note, how many people have been liquidated, truly astonishing See you on the 22nd for the verdict, anyway I’ve already exited

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Mechanic2026GetsRichQuickly

· 21h ago

🐶Zhuang, all the chips are just him flipping from left to right. No matter how you play, it's a loss.

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MEVEye

· 22h ago

The market maker can decide the rise or fall in an instant; we retail investors are really just leeks. 95% of the shorts are blocked, a single spike can trigger liquidation—that's the reality of the market. High transaction fees directly eat into profits; the market maker's combination punches are too ruthless. With such an uneven game, why do people still dare to short? 99% of the chips are in one hand; it's no longer trading, it's pure gambling with life and death. Volume on the 22nd? I think we should wait and see.

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LuckyBlindCat

· 22h ago

90% of the chips are in the hands of the market maker, we're just retail investors waiting to be slaughtered lambs. This game can't be played; the funding fee sucks blood daily, and a single needle drop is gone. Volume on the 22nd? I choose to lie flat and wait for calm to return. The market maker's tricks have been played out long ago, it's just a matter of who dies faster.

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LaLaLaDemacia

· 22h ago

Retail investors are all long; just look at the holdings to know.

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ShitcoinArbitrageur

· 22h ago

90% of the chips are in the hands of the market makers. Why would retail investors still dare to short? Isn't this just giving away money? This situation is indeed brutal. Capital fees eat into profits daily, and a single spike can blow up an account. Shorting RIVER now is basically asking for death.

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