🪤 ICP TRAP FLOW – 5-STEP SCHEME TO PUMP–DUMP–KILL LONG–SHORT

🔹 STEP 1 — PRICE CRASH + SOWING FEAR
• Continuous futures sell-off
• Weakening RSI
• Price slides down to the 3.45 → 3.42 range
• Bad news, panic spreads quickly

🎯 Objective:

Force the “about to crash” mindset to prepare for killing SHORTs next.

🔹 STEP 2 — TRIGGER SHORT FOMO
• Price breaks below 3.42
• Retail all at once:
• “Breakdown already!”
• “Short is a sure win!”
• Negative funding
• OI increases as Shorts pile in

🎯 Objective:

Stuff SHORTs right where SPOT is waiting to accumulate.

🔹 STEP 3 — SPOT TRIGGERS BUY WALL → KILL SHORTS
• SPOT triggers large orders at:
• 3.40 → 3.30 → 3.00
• Price surges 5–10% in a short time
• Shorts hit stop-loss en masse → Short Squeeze

🎯 Result:

Whales accumulate spot and eat up Short liquidity.

🔹 STEP 4 — PUMP NARRATIVE + KILL LONGS
• After the bounce:
• Good news appears
• Community shouts: “It’s the bottom!”
• Price recovers to:
• 3.50 → 3.53

Retail at this point:
• All-in Long
• Believe in a breakout

🎯 But here:

Futures + SPOT pile up thick sell walls → begin DUMPING ON LONGS.

🔹 STEP 5 — CRASH PRICE AGAIN – RESET THE CYCLE
• Longs get trapped
• Price slammed back to:
• 3.44 → 3.42 → even 3.35
• Cycle returns to STEP 1

🎯 The entire loop:

SHORTs die → LONGs die → WHALES GET RICHER → RETAIL GETS POORER

✅ 1-SENTENCE SUMMARY OF THE SCHEME

ICP sets traps by: Dumping to kill Shorts → Pumping to kill Longs → Repeating until retail runs out of money.