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You’re Not Playing Crypto — You’re Getting Played

You’re fueling someone else’s win.

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Digital Vault
June 17, 2025

Let me break this down for you.

No fluff.
No conspiracy talk.
Just raw truth about how this game is actually played — and why you are the target.

The market is rigged.
Not maybe. Not possibly. Fact.

And if you don’t understand how it works,
You’re not just losing.
You’re fueling someone else’s win.

1. MicroStrategy Doesn’t Move Price — It Moves You

Michael Saylor tweets.
Retail screams, “Bullish!”
Crypto Twitter rejoices.

“Big buys coming! We’re saved!”

But what they don’t realize?

The buys already happened. OTC.

You didn’t catch a trend.
You caught a marketing campaign.

MicroStrategy doesn’t move the market.
They move sentiment — you — so your FOMO provides exit liquidity.

They buy quietly.
They shill publicly.
You buy the top.
They unload bags.

That’s the game.

2. Perp Markets = The Perfect Trap

Perp = perpetual futures.
Where the leverage lives.
Where retail gets slaughtered daily.

Here’s how it works:

  • Institutions open massive longs or shorts

  • Price nudges up (or down)

  • Retail sees momentum → jumps in

  • Then flip the market

It’s called bait and bleed

Push just enough to bait FOMO
Then pull back and liquidate everyone who chased.

They make money off your reactivity.
You lose because you have no strategy.

Every wick you blamed on “manipulation”?
Was you chasing noise without context.

3. Your Stop Loss Is Their Entry Point

You set your stop:

  • Right under support

  • Right at round numbers

  • Right below your trendline

Because that’s what the TA books taught you, right?

Guess what?

You just placed a liquidity beacon.

Market makers see your stop.

  • They hunt it.

  • Trigger it.

  • Clean it.

  • Price bounces back instantly.

You scream “manipulation.”
But it’s not manipulation.

It’s a harvest.

They collected your fear
And turned it into their entry.

Learn the Rules — Or Get Played

Every single wick.
Every scam pump.
Every slow bleed.

It’s not random.
It’s not emotional.
It’s intentional.

The goal is to extract conviction from the masses
And consolidate profits for the few.

The market is a machine.
If you don’t know how it’s wired, you’re the input.
And they will use you until you have nothing left.

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  • How to read perp flow + open interest

  • Where stop clusters hide

  • How to fade emotional retail entries

  • When the whales are rotating vs. accumulating

This is the difference between getting played…

And becoming the one setting traps.

Victor

P.S.
Don’t tweet about “manipulation” if you’re still using 10x leverage at round-number stops.

Study the system.
Flip the role.
Win the game.

Or get harvested again next leg down.