A whale is a market participant whose position size is large enough that their trading activity visibly moves price. In Bitcoin, addresses holding 1,000+ BTC are commonly called whales; in altcoins the threshold is whatever fraction of total supply represents meaningful concentration.
Whale watching is a popular cottage industry: on-chain analytics services track large addresses and report their flows in real time. A large transfer to or from an exchange wallet is sometimes interpreted as a precursor to a buy or sell — but the interpretation is noisy and frequently wrong.
The practical implication of whales is liquidity asymmetry: even a thinly-staffed market can have one or two entities whose actions dominate the day. Strategies that assume continuous, well-behaved order flow can break down when a whale takes the other side.
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Liquidity-aware strategies →Verwandte Begriffe
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Hodler
Long-term holder of crypto who refuses to sell through volatility.
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Long
A position that profits when price rises. To 'go long' = to buy.
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Short
A position that profits when price falls. To 'short' = to sell first, buy later.
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FUD
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt — narratives that drive sellers to capitulate.