These market prices show a very short term reality... Is this a trustworthy reality?
It's sad to see all those red candles out there, but I could be used to it, because it seems that everytime there's good news DASH prices go considerably down... something like "sell on the news" (?!!)
Anyway, there is still (at least that's how I see it) a "trading game" going ou on the markets, so that the exchange prices are NOT the "natural" DASH price ("natural" meaning here "the value to reflect the technology behind DASH")... It's still a kind of "manipulation" in order to "drive the market": When "the whale" moves, the "small fish" get scared for their own loss... and it is "the whale" to win, after all....
... unless some "smart fishes", noticing all the staging, keep focused on the long term, and do take their profits as well, along with "the whale".
Actually, DASH will only be really strong after it is very well spread (when there's no no sufficiently huge holder). That will be the "real market" with a "real price"
I truly hope there are many "smart fishes" right now, seeing through the "phony market smoke"... It would mean a nice DASH spread redistribution going on.
But, I am not a trader, and I am not an economist, so I might be all wrong in my feelings here...
Edit (for a kind of conspiracy theory that came to my mind in a flash): There are so many huge interests at stake when it comes to the cryptoeconomy. It would be easy for some "real big whale, bigger than any DASH whale" to act rogue and try to destroy us... it's like someone said somewhere: "being able to fly under the radar is a bless".