**Whale Tactics in Manipulating Traders 🚨**
1. **Pump and Dump:
- Whales buy a large amount to raise the price ↓
- Attract small traders to buy ↓
- Whales suddenly sell causing a price crash! 💥
2. **Spoofing:
- Placing **huge buy orders** (then canceling them) to deceive others into thinking there is strong demand.
- Or the opposite: **fake sell orders** to push the price down. 🎭
3. **Stop-Loss Hunting:
- Temporarily pushing the price down to trigger traders' **stop-loss** orders ↓
- Whales buy at a low price after forced liquidations. 🎯
4. **Wash Trading:
- Whales trading between their own wallets to create an illusion of **high trading volume** ↓
- Attracting speculators to buy the asset. 💼
5. **Media Manipulation:**
- Spreading false news through social media.
- Example: "Project X will join a global company" (without evidence). 📰
6. **Freezing:
- Holding the price at a certain level for a long time ↓
- Forcing traders to exit positions due to boredom or fear. ❄️
7. **Fake Liquidity:
- Placing large buy/sell orders near the current price ↓
- Deceiving traders that the market is "liquid" while it is fake orders. 🎣
**How to Protect Yourself? 🔒
- Do not follow alerts without verification.
- Use **technical analysis** + track trading volume.
- Avoid high leverage during volatile times.
