The price has nothing to do with manipulation. It kept going up because of the arrogantly negative sentiment
I posted about this weeks ago with tons of downvotes where I mentioned that it’s impossible for the market to go down when everyone and their mother is short.
There’s no liquidity to move down when puts are completely dwarfing calls and futures are being shorted into oblivion just to get squeezed up. This entire sub was 100,000% confident that there was a 0.000000% chance that the market would go up because of the war or because of 🥭even though every single war has been historically bullish. As if there’s some scientific law stating that the market has to go one way or another. What’s even crazier is that these people never learn their lesson since the same thing happened in 2025
Anyone can buy or sell anything in the market for any reason but what’s most important is liquidity. This market will likely go much further up than you think and likely all the way up to 750 pretty soon since people here STILL cluelessly think that the market is going up because of “manipulation” and will probably enjoy the humiliating ritual of shorting even more and losing even more. If this market is so obviously manipulated, why weren’t you long?