How to spot a crypto pump early

You can see unusual buying as it happens. You cannot see which way the price goes next.

On our record seeing the buying was not a head start: most of the whales' move was over by the time it showed. What we measured. Here is how to read the buying itself.

  1. Compare with normalflow against the coin's own recent hours
  2. Several exchangesthe same lean in more than one place
  3. On-chain buyinglarge DEX swaps, repeat buyers
  4. Let the radar scanyou look at the few that are unusual

Forget fixed dollar thresholds

A flat dollar filter buries you in Bitcoin trades or misses the small coin that just took unusual money. What matters is flow that is large for that coin.

Fixed line "Show me $2M+ buys"

Enormous for a mid-cap, routine for Bitcoin.

Against its own normal "5x its usual hourly whale volume"

Unusual for this coin, whatever its size.

See how many exchanges the buying is on

One large buy on one exchange can be a single account. The same buying on several exchanges at once, and on-chain, is more than one order in one place. That describes the buying, not the price that follows.

Unusual buying is information, not advice. It shows where money is going, not what to do. Past outcomes do not ensure future results.

On-chain buying the exchanges miss

A lot of buying happens on decentralized exchanges. Large swaps into a token, especially from repeat wallets, show buying that exchange trades miss.

Let the radar scan

The radar shows which of a few hundred coins have unusual whale flow right now, each against its own normal.

On Hyperliquid it names the accounts behind the flow. Open one to read its past record, proven traders included.

Checking the record

Every signal is scored on what price did next, hits and misses alike, on the public track record.

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Spotting a pump: common questions

Can you really spot a crypto pump before it happens?
No. You can see unusual whale buying as it happens, measured against the coin's own normal. On our record most of the whales' move was over by then, and the buying did not tell which way the price went next. It is context, not a signal to act.
What makes whale flow "unusual"?
Flow measured against the coin's own recent hours, not a fixed dollar amount. Several times its normal hourly whale volume is unusual. A large number that is normal for the coin is not.
Is this investment advice?
No. It is information, not advice. Past results do not guarantee future ones.
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