**Whale Manipulations in the Crypto Market 🐋**
9 out of 10 people will lose all their funds after a bull run ends. But the 1% who understand these manipulations will make millions. 🧵👇
➮ Price manipulations are a daily occurrence in the crypto market.
☩ Sometimes they happen within a single day to profit from a small group, and other times they span months to extract money from the entire market.
➮ Today, let’s uncover whale manipulations:
☩ Why they occur and how to avoid losing all your money by falling into their traps.
☩ This information is crucial; hope it helps you steer clear of whale deceptions.
➮ Recent $ETH ETF Approval.
☩ Following the news, the price soared nearly 30% in a day.
☩ The crowd FOMOed and bought ETH, but whales sat back and cashed out on ordinary investors.
➮ To profit, whales need to sell their accumulated coins to many people. To accumulate, they need people to sell their assets.
☩ They play on two emotions: FEAR & GREED.
➮ Strategies whales use:
1. **Stop Loss Hunting**
- Whales drive the price to key support & resistance levels to trigger regular traders' stop losses.
2. **Fair Value Gap (FVG)**
- FVGs form during strong pumps or dumps and act as support and resistance. During corrections, prices often rebound to the first FVG.
3. **3-Drive Pattern**
- Indicates reversals; similar to Stop Hunt but with an additional retracement. Effective with bearish patterns like BTC in 2021.
4. **Range Manipulation**
- Whales keep prices in tight ranges to shake out the crowd, often reversing after breaking key levels.
5. **News Manipulation**
- Prices rise in anticipation of news but drop 90% of the time when the news is released.
➮ Rules to protect against manipulations:
☩ Set your stop just beyond the level where a Stop Hunt already occurred.
☩ Avoid FOMO buying right after a major dip if the price is in an FVG.
☩ Support or resistance levels often break after five touches.
☩ Avoid buying immediately after big pumps
