$RIVER Same Manipulation, New Trap.

RIVER didn’t move from 16 to 66 because of healthy demand. That move was a classic liquidity pump. Straight up, no proper base, no real consolidation, just price squeezing shorts and forcing FOMO entries.

Now look at what happened near the top. Big wicks, sharp rejection, and then a clean break of the trendline. That’s distribution. Smart money selling into excitement, not building positions.

Since then, price is stuck in a dirty range. It’s not trending anymore. It’s hunting liquidity on both sides. One candle nukes longs, next candle traps shorts. This is exactly how manipulated coins behave after a vertical move.

Most likely scenario from here is a slow bleed toward the 35–30 zone to fill the imbalance and clean up late longs. There is still a chance of one more fake push toward 48–52 just to trap shorts, but that would only be another liquidity grab, not a real reversal.

Until price builds a proper base again, this is not a clean long or short. This is a trap zone.

In these markets, surviving is more important than trading.

Protect capital first.

Trade later.@Sam48301