what coins are whales targeting specifically?

[LordSonjai]

why?is it the buy volume is it the sell volume? is it the name what?is it random?

what makes a whale manipulate a coin what is it?

[Hollowman338]

FUD volume, they buy whatever they FUD.

In that case, NXT is an astronomical buy 

[choochimil]

The coins everyone else is ignoring.

[BayAreaCoins]

CLAMS.

No manipulation. 

People just enjoy Just-dice and then naturally more services spring up because people want "that" type of traffic and user base.

Chasing volume in markets in altcoins is really really dumb btw.

[drawingthesun]

why?is it the buy volume is it the sell volume? is it the name what?is it random?

what makes a whale manipulate a coin what is it?

Basic indicators of whale involvement

Assuming no awesome feature for said coin has been released:

Any coin moving up 10%++ several days in a row with trade volume of 400 bitcoin plus is the baseline for some mini-whale involvement.

30%++ per day for several days with trade volume of several thousand bitcoin most likely is real whale territory.

is it the buy volume is it the sell volume?

Both.

is it the name what?

I doubt it.

is it random?

Nope. Most of the time it's several smaller whales working together over IRC or something and the whole pump and dump is preplanned in advanced.


Make no mistake, someone is making money.