How to know if someone places a big order

[13bitcoins]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

[OmegaStarScream]

I'm not aware of any tools but you could build your own. You could use the API of the exchanges that you want to keep an eye on, most of the time It should be the most known ones because whales won't risk their money with exchanges that are not reputable, and just check the order book when there is an order above a specific amount that you consider as a 'whale' order.

[Harlot]

Well you can always see the number of orders as well as the number of buyers/sellers under the bid and ask section. I know there are other platforms where they identify who the large buyers and sellers are but I don't know there particular name of that exchange. But why do you want to know who the whales are in the market? Isn't it more dangerous since they now know that you will be following what they are doing which means they can influence the market if a lot of you based your trades on what they do.

[Pom_bensin]

the way you can see it is by seeing an order in exchange for a coin that really has the potential like bitcoin, if the bitcoin transaction is very large it is certain that the pope does it

[1Referee]

Most of the exchanges nowadays have a hidden orderbook feature for market movers, which is what whales are usually hiding themselves behind. You'll only notice that buy/sell walls are there when traders are buying or selling into these orders, because of the volume generated around the levels these orders are placed at.

That's why you shouldn't pay much attention to an orderbook. It can be easily manipulated visibly, and in the way it's not visible for you with hidden orders.

[clrpod]

Even if you can observe a large sell wall and when it's place there's no way to know if it's one big order or multiple smaller orders all at the same price. I do not know if that makes a difference for what you intend to use it for but it's worthwhile noting. I personally don't pay much attention to big orders because they are mostly removed before being filled and are just placed in an attempt to move the market one way or the other.

[liuqi]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

If you want to know complete indication it is impossible because number of whales are available in the market so they put some investment in low volume tokens or coins it will be reach high region so the only way is active in market status. I hope many regulations are possible in future so we just wait for some updates.

[jrrsparkles]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

We don't have any tools for that to find out big orders but what you can do is go to the exchanges where the volume of which coins you want to check is maximum and the look them periodically for any big orders.

If we have something like that means everyone can can save themselves when the whale selling their coins.

[babysweetTiger0401]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

Well according to my experienced when doing trade in the platform, I just always look and check the buy and sell in the monitor.
In that chart graph you will see over there the level count of the buyers/traders who set buy wall together with the amount of how much bitcoin or Eth they bought.

[logfiles]

There is simply no easy way.
One way would be through observation of the order book, sometimes you find when a large buy or sell order is placed at once.
The reason it's hard to identify such instances is when the wall decides to put up small buy and sell orders so as not to get noticed or even just manipulate the order book by placing an order to bring the price down or shoot it up then afterward cancel the order, this completely makes it useless to follow whale orders.

[eternalgloom]

I'm not aware of any tools but you could build your own. You could use the API of the exchanges that you want to keep an eye on, most of the time It should be the most known ones because whales won't risk their money with exchanges that are not reputable, and just check the order book when there is an order above a specific amount that you consider as a 'whale' order.

Wouldn't many of the whales rather use OTC exchanges done in private, just so they can get a custom price and they don't broadcast their trades?
Talking about massive amounts here, not 'just' a couple thousand BTC of course.

That said, I do wish there was an app that notifies you of big trades on the highest volume exchanges.
Would be pretty handy indeed.

[dothebeats]

Building your own market watch from scratch and using an exchange's API could do the trick, although there are some rumors that exchanges somewhat mask big buy/sell orders on the platform so as not to cause a sudden sway in the order books and prevent a crash/pump to happen. I could be wrong though, but platforms have changed drastically that it's not easy to trust the order book alone, and I have seen a lot of instances wherein the order book seemed to be okay without anything unusual then a sudden crash happens.

Wouldn't many of the whales rather use OTC exchanges done in private, just so they can get a custom price and they don't broadcast their trades?
Talking about massive amounts here, not 'just' a couple thousand BTC of course.

Yep, OTC is still the way to go for whales that want to get a customized deal and to also not drown/excite the market too much. However with the real-time price action on exchanges, there's a lot of money to be made in an instant so other whales like to stick it on their trusted exchange and do as everyone else does.

[bedford1972]

I've never seen such tools. This can only be understood from the experience that will appear in the process. Why would you even know that? If you are constantly trading, you will understand what to do. We will never know the plans of market makers. This is how the market works. Then everything would be obvious and the market would not exist. Market makers make the market move and it should be used.

[Oilacris]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

Theres no such tool on and I believe theres no exchange that would able to notify you out if there are whales who do put up big order neither buy or sell. That's too much
transparency if certain user would be point out if he put up massive orders.In all years I do have experience on trading such thing doesn't exist yet you can able to spot out
it manually if you do like to.

[Xiroartoni]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

There are no tools to help you see their transactions. I know that it is possible to find services that will show transactions of holders of large sums. Very often it happens that whales do not sell their coins on exchanges. They often sell their coins directly to the buyer.

[TopT3ns]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

I think if want to see order we can't well we want or not must look on exchange 1 by 1 to see their orders, because if that thing can happen, it will be easy to know which coin will get pumped in market.

[CASTIEL05]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

Just look at the order list. You can see the number of orders, quantity of tokens and the price they would want to bid or ask. If you can see a bigger one, you can determine that it is a whale or not. Imagine, if there is a seller of bitcoin, it has 10 BTC and above. It is a whale if it has large amount of dollars or tokens in order.

[damberg]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

I would use API of your desired exchanges and developed such a tool on my own if I were you. Although it may sound simple (make connection to an exchange, scan volume of buying and selling orders every 10 second, compare current volume with previous volume, if increased by x % - trigger an action), you will have to do lots of tweaking and probably some trial/error experience.

[herurist]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

Sometimes whales will replace their fund in separate exchange, we call it swing method. But I believe check large order is not worth because whales is speculate person, they use momentum ( news/ rumors ) not data. As long you know market trend and set your indicator ( SL/ TP ) is enough. Don't play too hard, just enjoy the journey.

[TheUltraElite]

Is there a way that I can know if some whale has just place a large order in any exchange in the world without a need to check all them every time, is there any indicator?

There is no such indicator that I know of. Some exchanges allow the orderbooks to be seen by other traders and directly take those orders if they wish to.

I believe you are asking this in the pretext of knowing when a big dump or a big pump is going to happen. Let me give you a straight answer on that as you cant. Whales are not like smallcap traders buying a couple of coins on the popular exchanges. They have their own networks for buying and selling that too mostly through mixers. They want as much anonymity as possible because if they go to exchanges they will face legal problems and KYC which is obviously a problem for a whale.