Anyone who has been in the crypto space for a while will be familiar with the term whale. These guys are the ones with seemingly endless sums of money and can manipulate markets a market as they see fit. While spending time tracking some whales it has come to light that many whales use their influence to help their friends achieve whale status.
One of the ways that this is done is through the use of sell walls and scaring cheap coins out of minnow. How this works is pretty simple. Whales know that the biggest fear for a minnow is to lose 20-30% on any trade, and would rather bail before things got any lower. They also know that most minnow fear sell walls because they fear it might cause a price dump and this is where the game is played.
Say our local whale ( BIll ) wants to help his buddy get into a coin that was recently released on an exchange but didn't have the best of entries available. Bill will tell his buddy ( Carl ) hey I will be putting up a sell wall at X price have your buy order set 10-15% below that. Bill goes and places his sell wall 20% below the lowest asking price and madness ensues.
Here is a quick example of what the order book now looks like:
If you look closely there is now a massive gap between previous sell orders and the where the wall is placed. What happens next is where the money is made. All of the sale order that had been on edge and losing patience now see that a bigger seller is trying to get out, so it becomes a race to the bottom and the buy orders begin to get filled relentlessly causing a cascading red candle.
This candle forms because everyone wants out of what they presume to have been a bad investment. So now carl who has his buy order set 10-15 below the wall is having his order filled for 30-40% cheaper then what the books where before the games were started. Carl will buy more then what he intends to keeplong-termm because what happens next is how the risk free money is generated.
After they have filled there bags with the cheaper coins the sell wall is released and the order has a massive chasim to be filled. Those who have panic sold are now in a dilemma, they have just sold a token they like trying to swing trade it but now face a situation where the coin may return to it previous height shorty. What happens is a flurry of buy start coming in, so carl can take advantage of this and sell the excess coins he purchased all the way back up to the price of the coin before the manipulation started and dropping the his average cost way down.
Bill has now assisted Carl in attaining coins for cheap and they both can move on to the next coin and continue the same scheme.
Here is the game we all know.
Trading is not for everyone.
Sound like how we all get played in Forex.
It sounds just like it is.
You just making us aware of everything.
Keep on steemin'
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Appreciate it brother. Its tricky but what have learned is to pick a price that you are comfortable with and walk away. if it comes down a bit DCA and call it a day
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Hi Bill, let me be your Carl.
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You are probably closer to being bill then I am. :)
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Your post had been curated by the @buildawhale & @upmyvote team and mentioned here:
https://steemit.com/curation/@buildawhale/buildawhale-curation-digest-04-27-18
Keep up the good work and original content, everyone appreciates it!
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Hey thanks pal. I didn’t even notice it on there.
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My question to you is, if you could choose, would you:
No judgment for either choice, just curious.
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I’d become a whale for sure.
The system you speak of is created by the greed of everyone. So there is no real change that could be implemented to fix this issue.
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I would like to become a whale. One can only dream :)
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All it takes is one lucky draw
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I think i also want to become a whale. hahhaahha
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Thanks a lot for that.
I knew that there was something strange in some coins..
But now I now how it works. Thank you.
Well I want to be a whale, too.
Hey whales.... I wanna be your buddy to get a whale, too ;-)
upvoted&resteemed&you got a new follower
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hate the game, not the players. Actually, this happens so often and since nobody is regulating the market, nobody can change it, atm.
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Far from hating, this actually helped me last night. I was just point it out for the minnow, most still get rekt by the game.
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oh okay, so actually you're good player!
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Just a minnow trying to make it in this world.
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For mango people like us going behind the whales may lock some profit but greed should be controlled...
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Can greed every really be controlled?
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The big question 🤔
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I just picture these whales all in the same room together and laughing while executing their trades. @crypto2crypto
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Not to far from the truth. But digital room not physical
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Hahaha
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these whales are still controlling the whole market unfortunately, but the one who is intellingent more could play their game by Holding & Hodl because the crypto willl definitely rise. the all time high of the market is nothing in comparison with what is really coming in the future.
Keep it UP
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Whales are people who help their friends
I hope that some of the currencies he invested in will rise
Really great article indeed and excellent information done well
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Very nice article thanks for sharing this information
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want to be like these whale.😃
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Don'tme wrong, here on steemit once you've become a whale's friend in no time you will become a small whale.
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Very informative article, thanks for sharing. I've smashed the upvote button for you!
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I so much desire to become a whale.
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In my opinion, the great whales do not usually help many to the community, I have noticed that when I enter a post of trend category, almost all whales are commenting and using their voting power in their own comments to excel, as What I mean is that they always help the same whales, I'm not including everyone, @cervantes @bert0 are two of the few whales that actually help here.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but it is what I have observed, most of the whales seek their same benefit and I do not criticize them, because who would not do it in their shoes
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Um did you even bother reading the post? you are rambling about the wrong thing.
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Not at all heart, maybe my opinion because the little time I have on the platform, I hope and I can get to think differently
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Pue ka peugah ,😊
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any whales wanna be buddies? :)
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LMAO
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Yep problem is these walls sometimes get wrecked.! Vechain and Neo were under massive amounts of suppression for along time
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you completely fail to understand the underlying concept here
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The only way to be a successful trader, is to pay attention to how the already established traders took all your money while you weren't being a successful trader.
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😛😛😛😅
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I love whales! I just don't...LOVE...whales.
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Definitely sounds like what happens all the time in Forex!
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