ummm, the manipulator just showed their hand ... and got drained 2-3k cheap coinz.
Just proves that the market can be pushed any which way that The Manipulator wants it to go. Had the Stamp Whale not immediately dumped after he pumped, we would have had lift off. All technicals and fundamentals go right out of the window in this market. The whim of the whale decides.
On one hand, if the whale is a large holder of Bitcoin, surely ultimately in the long run, he wants Bitcoin to go up. Stratospheric even...on the otherhand, it is exactly shite like that 20 second pump n dump that will put off traders from investing in Bitcoin. With unregulated exchanges, what is stopping some whale from having access to an exchangers order books, seeing where all the Stops are, and basically fucking robbing people? (as happens on Bitfinex anyhow)
Maybe anything I say is not going to stop you from pursuing this somewhat illogical theory of one manipulator buying and selling on the same exchange.
Your theory makes some sense, but you pursue it to such degree that you act as if there is evidence for such.
I will concede that there may be circumstances in which there may be some rationale to manipulate in upward, rather than downward; however, a more likely scenario is that the downward manipulators buy somewhere else, and transfer coins to Stamp to dump.