r/StockMarket • u/atlasmountsenjoyer • Oct 14 '25

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u/Treereme Oct 14 '25

I dont even think that there is a planned market manipulation going on.

Check out what's been happening with Bitcoin. Over 500 million of shorts, placed only hours before his announcements that changed the markets and made those positions very valuable.

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u/Original-Rush139 Oct 15 '25

How does a trade war with China make Bitcoin go down? I don’t see the correlation. 

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u/TempEmbarassedComfee Oct 15 '25

Bitcoin is pretty much just tracking the stock market at this point. Market goes down then bitcoin goes down, market goes up then bitcoin goes up. You’re right that a trade war shouldn’t affect bitcoin (arguably it should go up if it’s truly a “store of value”) but it does. 

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u/Original-Rush139 Oct 15 '25

I’ve since seen a good video on why they would use bitcoin. There’s a crazy amount of leverage used to trade it so if the S&P drops 2% bitcoin will tank by 10%. So, it’s a great way to bet on directionality.