#IKA# Serious imbalance in supply and demand and market manipulation

Liquidity Locking Mechanism: New coins often limit circulation through design such as staking mining and lock-up rewards, for example, only releasing a small amount of tokens to the market. At this time, a small amount of buying can drive up the price, forming a "low circulation + high market value" distorted structure.

Market Maker Control
Project teams or early investors create false liquidity by controlling the depth of the exchange order book. Typical manifestations include:

The difference in trading order volume levels is significant (e.g., sparse sell orders).
Price fluctuations show a "stepwise slow increase" 2
II. Market Manipulation Behavior
Whale account control
When a small number of addresses hold most of the tokens, they can do so through:
Left hand trades with the right hand to manipulate the market.
Leverage low liquidity to amplify price fluctuations
Options leverage effect
When the open bullish contracts are concentrated at expiration, market makers need to hedge risks by buying in the spot market, forming short-term price support. This phenomenon is significantly amplified in low liquidity coins.
Risk Warning: This type often comes with severe pullbacks, the option expiration date for Bitcoin in May 2025 once led to $657 million in long liquidations. The volatility of low liquidity coins can typically reach 3-5 times the normal level.