TON/USDT: How to Act in the Market When Panic Takes Over?
2025-02-03
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Crypto Panic or Manipulation? A Deep Market Breakdown
🔥 Hello everyone, this is Ronin!

The last two trading days have been a real test for investors and traders in the cryptocurrency market. 📉 We witnessed a massive wave of liquidations, which literally crashed altcoins. Looking at the numbers:

Most assets dropped by 10–30%.
Some coins lost 50% of their value.
The total crypto market capitalization shrank by more than 10% in just a few days.
We haven’t seen a crash like this in a long time. 📉💥

What Are Analysts Saying?
According to most experts, the main reason for this decline was the new trade sanctions imposed by Donald Trump against Canada and Mexico. These sanctions allegedly led to an overall deterioration of the economic climate, causing capital to flow out of risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.

But is that really the case?

My Perspective: What Really Happened?
I can’t say with 100% certainty, but my decade of experience tells me otherwise. What we saw over the weekend was nothing more than crypto panic and large-scale market manipulation.

🔹 Why do I believe this?

The sanctions have no direct or indirect impact on the crypto market.
The key factor was the psychological state of market participants.
Friday was extremely positive: the Fear and Greed Index was in the "greed" zone, and ETF funds recorded record capital inflows.
The Fed left interest rates unchanged, which the market viewed more positively than negatively.
However, by the weekend, we saw massive sell-offs. The logic is simple: big players took advantage of the news cycle to wipe out market liquidity. 💸

The Hardest Hit: TON
💎 TON (The Open Network) is one of the most promising blockchain projects, closely tied to the Telegram ecosystem.

And here’s the question: Is there any real reason for TON to be this undervalued?

❌ The answer is a definite NO!

For comparison:

Even when Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France, the risks for the project were much higher, yet the price never dropped below $4.
However, on Sunday night, the price plummeted to $3 – with no real fundamental reason behind it.
📌 If that’s not manipulation, then what is?

What Do the Stats Say?
📊 More than $2 billion in liquidations occurred in a single trading day.
💥 This was one of the largest liquidation events in the history of the crypto market.

If you check CoinGlass, you’ll see a massive imbalance in liquidations between buyers and sellers. Big players literally wiped out everyone who was leveraged long.

What’s Next? Where Is the Market Headed?
As the saying goes: "Buy when everyone is selling, and sell when everyone is buying."

Right now:
✅ Everyone is selling.
✅ The market is in panic mode.
✅ Big players have wiped out overleveraged long positions.

What should you do in this situation? 🤔

Personally, my average entry on TON is $5. I bought 40,000 tokens, and yes – the drawdown is significant.

I had the temptation to close my position, wait for the bottom, and re-enter, but then I remembered one of the golden rules of the market:

💡 If everyone is selling, it’s time to buy!

So not only did I NOT close my position, but I increased it.

Conclusion: What to Expect Next?
📌 This was an artificial correction – a manipulation aimed at liquidating overloaded positions.
📌 The coming days will show a recovery, especially if volumes begin to rise.
📌 Market psychology is a key factor. When the market is in panic mode, big players are accumulating assets at low prices.

I will continue to publish updates on my TON position and other cryptocurrencies. If you’re interested in my strategy for recovering from this deep drawdown, follow my profile on TradingView.

🚀 In upcoming articles, we’ll analyze other coins and provide a microeconomic breakdown of projects in similar situations.

This has been Ronin – stay tuned for updates! There's a lot more to come. 🎯