Now I will tell you 5 real strategies that whales use in the crypto market. 🐋
If you understand these things, you start to see the market in a completely different way.
1️⃣ Liquidation hunting
Whales know where the stop-losses and liquidations of the crowd are.
What's happening:
The crowd opens long positions with leverage
The price drops sharply
Liquidations are triggered
The price drops even more
Whales at this moment buy cheap.
This often happens on exchanges like Binance.
2️⃣ Fake Pump
Sometimes large players intentionally pump the price up.
The scheme is simple:
The whale buys the asset
The price starts to rise
The crowd sees growth
FOMO begins
The crowd buys
And then the whale sells at the highs.
3️⃣ Manipulating the News
Sometimes news is used as a trigger for market movement.
For example:
rumors
influencers
‘insides’
The cryptocurrency market itself is very emotional because of this, especially around assets like Bitcoin.
4️⃣ Accumulation in Silence
The whales' favorite strategy.
When the market:
boring
falling
no one talks about crypto
Whales slowly accumulate the asset.
And when the hype begins —
they are already sitting on huge profits.
5️⃣ Crowd Panic
When the price drops sharply:
newbies start selling
the market looks 'dead'
everyone says 'crypto is dead'
At this moment, whales often start buying.
💡 There’s an old saying in the market:
The crowd buys hope.
Whales buy fear.
Here are 7 signs that a whale 🐋 is currently at work in the market
If you learn to notice them — you start to understand when the market is moved by not ordinary traders.
1️⃣ Sharp ‘spikes’ on the chart
The price drops sharply:
drops by 3–5% in minutes
then quickly returns back
This often happens when the crowd's stops are hit.
This is especially evident with Bitcoin.
2️⃣ Strange Huge Orders
Sometimes in the order book appear:
huge orders
which then disappear
This is called spoofing.
The whale shows a large order to scare the market.
3️⃣ The price goes against the news
Sometimes good news comes out, but the price drops.
Or vice versa:
bad news
and the market rises.
This often means that large players have already factored everything into the price.
4️⃣ Strong Movements at Night
When most people are asleep, the market sometimes does:
sharp pumps
or strong drops.
This is because liquidity is lower, and it’s easier for the whale to move the market.
5️⃣ Liquidation Cascades
Sometimes the price drops stepwise:
−2%
−4%
−8%
This means that liquidation stops are triggered.
On exchanges like Binance, this happens constantly.
6️⃣ Long Boring Consolidation
Sometimes the market stays within the same range for months.
The crowd loses interest.
But at this moment accumulation often occurs.
7️⃣ Very Sharp Rise Without Reason
When the price starts to rise too quickly — this is sometimes the beginning:
pump
or liquidity pumping.
The crowd starts buying.
And the whale can exit at this moment.
💡 There’s an old trader's rule:
If the movement looks too obvious
most likely, it’s a trap.
It’s important to understand one thing: large players do not see the stops of a specific person, but they know very well where the crowd places them.
1️⃣ Psychological Levels
Most traders place stops:
below round levels
below support
above resistance
For example on Bitcoin:
60 000
65 000
70 000
Under these levels, there are usually a huge number of stops.
2️⃣ Obvious Support Levels
When the price touches a certain level multiple times —
many traders place stops right below it.
What the whale does:
the price breaks through the level
stops are triggered
a sharp movement begins
This is called stop hunting.
3️⃣ Clusters of Liquidations
On futures, you can see where many positions have accumulated.
If the crowd opened many longs, then just below will be the zone:
liquidations
stops.
Sometimes the price intentionally goes there to gather liquidity.
This often happens on exchanges like Binance.
4️⃣ Trend Lines
Another favorite stop location —
below the trend lines.
When the line breaks:
the crowd exits
a strong movement begins.
5️⃣ Whales seek liquidity
The main principle of the market:
The price goes where the money lies.
And the money is most often located:
in stops
in liquidations
in crowd panic.
💡 There’s even an old saying among traders:
The market first takes the stops…
and then goes in the right direction.