Hunting the big whales.

[Gozie51]

Hunting the big whales.

Every day some small-cap cryptos increase in value, sometimes by 100%. Pump and dump is random for small investors.
Is there a way to find out in advance where the pump and dump is happening?

There is possibility for that but the question is if you will have the time to start tracking some of the details because it will be difficult to do. First is that you have to check wallets of whales and if they are buying/hodling on it. The reason for this is that they want to create artificial scarcity and then get a more or less "fake" hype that the coin is doing well in the market. So you have to follow the details of wallets that are accumulating the coins or if they are just few wallets mopping the coins. If they are few, then it might be an arranged buying and they will be ready to dump any time. This should also create low market cap and liquidity to show that the buying is not well spread out but for few wallets. That should be a sign you could look out for.

[TedMosby]

Maybe you meant Smart Money, not Whales. Whales are about volume/size. Smart Money is about performance. There are many filters for identifying Smart Money, and different people have their own filters.

Personally, I use GMGN and FOMO. On GMGN, for example, they already have features that allow people to easily scan and track Smart Money. On FOMO, you can also see a leaderboard based on performance, with PNL for 24H, 7D, 30D, and ALL, and you can track their ongoing positions and trading history.

[EarnOnVictor]

Every day some small-cap cryptos increase in value, sometimes by 100%. Pump and dump is random for small investors.
Is there a way to find out in advance where the pump and dump is happening?

The short answer is No!

Crypto earning is largely dependent of your risk affinity and luck. You might see a coin/token pumped so well, and before you know it, it dumped. And you might expect the same for many others, but they might hold for long before they dump. The pump would have been better if known before hand, but who knows the good coins/tokens these days when the market is flooded already?

This is the market we see coins/tokens with good project plan and prospect failing, where as the ones with no creator's valuable whatsoever being successful.

[WatChe]

No way. If you're getting the idea from pump fun and other platforms, they're all random and the way on how the tokens are pumped is due to the influence of the marketers.

They're not just marketers but also content creators or livestreamers or however you call them. They're shilling it to their fans to invest at the same time the endorsers will use that moment as their exit plan.

Due to platforms like pump.fun now anyone can launch his coin by paying a small platform platform fee with no initial liquidity required. Social media influencers and other celebrities are widely used to create hype of such coins and many people have lost their money who got trapped into such hypes. In crypto market there are huge numbers of coins and tracking coins that will pump is not an easy task. It's better to focus on top coins that have good market cap and repute rather than gambling your money on coins whose future is highly uncertain.    

[fighter2627]

Hunting the big whales.

Every day some small-cap cryptos increase in value, sometimes by 100%. Pump and dump is random for small investors.
Is there a way to find out in advance where the pump and dump is happening?

It seems like it's hard to hunt for real whale investors. It's also not a guarantee that if liquidity suddenly increases, there will really be a whale due to what if there are many small
investors buying.

And if there really is a whale, it can only stay for a short time and then sell immediately to take profit even if the earnings are not that big due to this is the usual thing
that happens in a pump and dump in a crypto coin.

[Bitcoin-Forever]

Hunting the big whales.

Every day some small-cap cryptos increase in value, sometimes by 100%. Pump and dump is random for small investors.
Is there a way to find out in advance where the pump and dump is happening?

There are opportunities for this but you have to be more careful because investing in a small cap coins could be as risky as you may think of, some of them are also more volatile than ever, which shows the significant ability to fall beyond the have pumped, this is why you will also discover that anything that has a higher opportunity to make profit will also have almost same proportion of risk while considered to be taken as an advantage.

[boyptc]

There are opportunities for this but you have to be more careful because investing in a small cap coins could be as risky as you may think of, some of them are also more volatile than ever, which shows the significant ability to fall beyond the have pumped, this is why you will also discover that anything that has a higher opportunity to make profit will also have almost same proportion of risk while considered to be taken as an advantage.

Not some of them but all of them are highly volatile. If there's one to hunt for the whales, stop it.

You're not going to find any if you're looking for them. They only come at unexpected times when they're already pumping a token.

And when someone FOMOs and try to get into their playbook as well, you're going to catch falling knives. Please avoid pump and dump schemes and don't be a part of it.

[Shinpako09]

Most likely no, unless you are an insider. Even if you are fortunate to spot a whale movement, it's not like they are going to wait for you to sell before they take profit. While you are thinking about how much profit to make before you sell, they are already deciding to sell. Most of the time, they are one step ahead. Such is the reality of a coin with a pump and dump scheme. Instead of hunting for a whale or a coin that can do 100x, just slowly build your portfolio. Not everyone is fortunate enough to turn a few bucks into 6 to 7 digits with a single coin, and that's a fact.

[henmark]

Maybe you meant Smart Money, not Whales. Whales are about volume/size. Smart Money is about performance. There are many filters for identifying Smart Money, and different people have their own filters.

Personally, I use GMGN and FOMO. On GMGN, for example, they already have features that allow people to easily scan and track Smart Money. On FOMO, you can also see a leaderboard based on performance, with PNL for 24H, 7D, 30D, and ALL, and you can track their ongoing positions and trading history.

These type of places usually show people who are lucky for the moment, but you do not know if they were this good before, or will be this good in the future.

For example, I have faced a dude who turned his money 100x more in a single trade, but he was still in a loss; think about it: the dude used maybe like a thousand dollars and made 100k, but he was still in a loss, because he lost more than 100k before that trade. Same with gambling. So there is no guarantee that the people you see there will always stay there, they could, or maybe they will start doing terrible.

[Ojima-ojo]

Hunting the big whales.

Every day some small-cap cryptos increase in value, sometimes by 100%. Pump and dump is random for small investors.
Is there a way to find out in advance where the pump and dump is happening?

Asides from the normal wide ride that comes with cryptocurrency trading where trader's must be ready to witnessed any dimensions in price which is reasonable to out some risks management in place to keep you as a safe zone with the general market volatilities.


Trader's should be more careful with memecoins, trading memecoins with tendency to pump and dump at any time is very important because at that point we can see whatever comes unexpectedly and we should know that any assets that can pump suddenly can dump at same proportion.

[jossiel]

No way. If you're getting the idea from pump fun and other platforms, they're all random and the way on how the tokens are pumped is due to the influence of the marketers.

They're not just marketers but also content creators or livestreamers or however you call them. They're shilling it to their fans to invest at the same time the endorsers will use that moment as their exit plan.

Due to platforms like pump.fun now anyone can launch his coin by paying a small platform platform fee with no initial liquidity required. Social media influencers and other celebrities are widely used to create hype of such coins and many people have lost their money who got trapped into such hypes. In crypto market there are huge numbers of coins and tracking coins that will pump is not an easy task. It's better to focus on top coins that have good market cap and repute rather than gambling your money on coins whose future is highly uncertain.    

That's an easy money for these influencers or any personality who's got a huge following.

They'll be considered as "legitimate" people who are into business but, the blind fans didn't know that they're being used to add liquidity to that easily made coin.

I hope that the hype due to pumpfun will already be gone soon because it's only making people lose more money.

[Smack That Ace]

I hope that the hype due to pumpfun will already be gone soon because it's only making people lose more money.

People have  been chasing meme coin and  shitcoin on DEXs hoping to get rich quick long before Pumpfun came along. So even if Pumpfun disappears or the hype around it dies down, something new will take its place. The problem isn't Pumpfun itself, but the get rich quick mentality. As long as there are people willing to throw a few bucks at a long shot hoping it changes their life. This game will keep going in one form or another.

[#CapsLOck]

An interesting point to note is that not only how much a whale buys. But also if the token has sufficient liquidity to let that whale sell without causing a price collapse. A big buy may seem bullish. But it can actually be a good exit indicator for someone who was a long time holder. A large buy can appear bullish, but it can also indicate that the investors who bought in a long time ago are selling their stocks. The movement of wallets also cannot always be used as accurate indicators. As concentration may be split among related wallets. I would not consider whale tracking as a prediction tool but instead one piece of evidence along with liquidity. Distribution of holders etc.

[abel1337]

Hunting the big whales.

Every day some small-cap cryptos increase in value, sometimes by 100%. Pump and dump is random for small investors.
Is there a way to find out in advance where the pump and dump is happening?

What are you referring to is called shitcoin/memecoins. These kind of tokens are most of the time manipulated and in a common grounds for pump and dump schemes. Pump and dump are typically done by token owners and bag holders. If you are on that space for long, you know that there's a way to spot those but it is hard honestly even if you are on that space for long. There are many bundlers and ruggers that you are fighting to, it's just pvp.

One method I can think of in finding those is to follow wallets that are typically doing this, follow their trade and do buy when they they buy but this has also has it's own risk. You can be a victim by just doing this because you might be their liquidity and they might know that there are people following their wallets.

Personally I don't recommend doing this especially if you are new to the space, you will be sucked dry before you can get any profits. You are just a liquidity to them.