As FUD becomes less and less effective, manipulators will become more and more desperate. I am anxious to see what they do next to get cheap coins from panic sellers and bad traders. I suspect most of the asks are piled up by the manipulators to keep the price down, therefore there is even less liquidity of coins to buy than we think. If the manipulators removed their asks it would be pretty scary how thin it would be, and the price would probably rocket as we eat through tiny ask walls.
"Manipulator" sounds like a bad name, but they are only trying to get as many coins as they can without the price moving too much, and who can blame them for that? Its a whale eat whale world in bitcoin, so it will only work until another whale comes along and eats all the asks up.