Of course, I defintely agree on your point about BS analyst. I mean, they work for the same companies underwriting the stocks, so their recommendations should never be viewed in a vacuum. That said, the reason why I'd argue that there's more manipulation in crypto is because there are no fundamental valuation metrics to apply to crypto currencies, entire price movements are driven by sentiment. If a single well known figure, releases positive or negative sentiment whether this be through a single tweet or article, these opinions can shift the market +/- 20% each day. That is not healthy and not the kind of manipulation that's possible in the stock market. Also, pump and dumps are super easy to orchestrate in the crypto market, especially on coins with small market caps or exchanges with low volume. While pump and dumps do occur in the stock market, they are far more difficult to orchestrate and require much more capital.