I have been trading and observing crypto markets for coming on a year and a half now and this shit is the most blatently manipulated garbage.. wash trading, market maker bots, liquidity hunts. The market will move erratically, many tokens moving almost exactly like one another, and then all of a sudden everything will come to an abrupt halt and tick along doing nothing on no volume. Very little about it appears natural or real.
So my question is, can anybody who has experience trading any markets other than crypto (commodities, stocks, forex, whatever) offer some opinions as to whether those markets are similar? I understand crypto is the least regulated and so likely subject to this more than others, but I'm just curious as to what extent.
Cheers