If I wanted to buy 10M MAID and had bought up chunks to get myself half way there over a week or two, I could see myself sticking the 5M I’d bought up in the sell book to force down the price a little bit so I could get the next 5M as cheaply as possible. I’m sure most people would. It’s not really tricky or subtle, but it does work to some extent.
I’ve been watching fairly closely. It feels like a player/group is accumulating in a fairly organised and consistent way. It seems quite rational for them to do whatever they can to hold prices lower while they fill their bags. I guess all this new buy pressure could also just be from the Maidsafe Asia community, but very little has been moving off exchanges and the buys are pretty huge when they come (a lot of single buys between 50-500 BTC), so it feels more centralised and organised to me.
I wonder how much longer they will keep accumulating and how long they plan on holding it for?