1. The market is unfair, and that’s not wrong.
Many traders – especially retail investors – enter the market with the expectation that technical analysis (TA), fundamental analysis (FA), or blockchain technology will be the key to success. But just a few months later, they bitterly realize a reality: “TA is only correct when sharks allow it.”
The crypto market, with its low liquidity, lack of transparency, and concentration of large funds in a few wallets, has become a "manipulation paradise" – where the strong do not need to win by intelligence, but by capital power.
2. How do sharks manipulate?
🎭 1. Crowd psychology is a weapon tool.
Sharks understand human behavior:
When the price rises → fomo.
When the price drops → panic selling.
When sideways → lose patience, enter a cold order.
Therefore:
Create false breakouts to attract volume and sweep stop losses.
Create a fake dump to gather cheap stocks.
Pump good/bad news at the right time to control the crowd.
📉 2. The "floor sweep" technique – Clean up retail orders.
For example:
Price zones with many traders placing stop losses below support → Sharks push the price down, sweep clean, then push back up.
Create textbook standard technical patterns (head and shoulders, triangles,…) → Break fake models, causing those who are “overly disciplined” to burn their accounts.
3. Trading method: Not to fight against sharks - but to go with them.
If you can't win the game, learn to play like them.
✅ a. Trade according to liquidity – Liquidity zones.
Observe areas where many stop losses are concentrated (at the top, bottom, breakout zone) → HIGH POSSIBILITY OF BEING SWEEPED.
Instead of placing orders in the “safe textbook” area, wait for the price to be pushed to the “irrational” point and then reverse.
“Sharks don’t buy when everyone is confident – they buy when everyone is desperate.”
✅ b. Patiently wait for reversal points showing signs of "price rejection".
Unusual large volume at psychological price zones.
Strong reversal candles after a sweep (e.g.: Pinbar, Engulfing).
The price does not continue the trend even after breaking out → Signs of distribution/absorption.
✅ c. Capital management like a "hunter", not a "farmer".
Do not enter orders just because it looks good, only enter when the market allows.
Flexible stop losses, not fixed below support/resistance as in books – because that is the dinner table of sharks.
Enter little – win big, instead of spamming orders and dying slowly.
4. Summary – Trading is not about being right, but about surviving.
In a market that is largely led, then:
Understanding how sharks operate is vital.
Technical analysis is not to be discarded, but needs to be combined with market psychology, money flow behavior, and liquidity observation skills.
“Winning is not about knowing many patterns – but about knowing who is pulling the strings behind the curtain.”
Professional trading is not about winning every bet. It’s about being on the right side and surviving long enough so that when the market turns, you still have capital to go along with it.
Learn to not be prey – but a hunter who knows how to be silent.
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