What usually takes weeks or months in the regular stock market gets compressed into hours and days here. All of which is thrilling, but at times can be stressful. The ability for hedge funds and other big players to manipulate the market with speculation is always going to happen. To the average person, crypto is magic and they fall victim to the newness and as soon as they see red, they think of how dumb they were to try this magic and sell...just what the big players wanted. All I say is, buy low, and HODL. Do you venture into alts at all?