Market Manipulation: A Guide to Spotting and Surviving Shaking Positions in Crypto Investments

Shaking positions, also known as washing positions and washing dishes, is a common method used by large investors (dog houses, institutions) to collect high-quality token chips from retail investors. Gouzhuang usually collects all the chips to control the currency price. Usually when Gouzhuang collects chips, the currency price will only fluctuate within a narrow range. When Gouzhuang has enough chips, it will deliberately "shock" its position. The currency will fall sharply in a very short period of time. Under the panic selling, many retail investors will be "shocked away" by then.​Well, we have had several very classic warehouse shaking events in the past year. When Gouzhuang created extreme panic in the market, it was the bottom of the currency price.​BTC: Since the Bitcoin spot ETF was officially approved and landed on the U.S. stock market in January, BTC soared to 49,000 and then plummeted to 38,000. Everyone thought it would continue to fall. Because the support of BTC at 40,000 was very strong at that time, and the good news about ETF was negative, after it fell below 40,000, retail investors and large investors took advantage of it, and finally gave up the cheap Bitcoin chips to BlackRock! Little did they know that that position was the periodic bottom of Bitcoin. After falsely falling below 40,000, in the past 28 days, Bitcoin has skyrocketed by US$14,000+, an increase of 37%, and its market value has exceeded US$1 trillion!BNB: In November 2023, because An'an was fined US$4.5 billion by the United States, BNB fell by -18% in one day, and the currency price once fell to 220U. The vast majority of retail investors panicked, including many large investors who were also extremely panicked. They transferred their assets one after another and finally left the market. Little did they know that that day was the bottom of BNB. In less than 3 months today, BNB has skyrocketed by 70%+! Market value increased by US$20 billion!​SOL: In December 2022, affected by the FTX incident and Explosive SBF, SOL dropped sharply to 8U per unit. At that time, the market was in a quarterly panic, and almost the entire market was shorting it. The funding rate was adjusted to be closed every 2 hours. Got it! You have to know that the contract funding rate is normally collected every 8 hours, so if you think about how panicked it was at that time, everyone was cutting their flesh at the lowest point of SOL, 8u, but little did they know that that was the lowest point! After a full year, SOL rose to 126 dollars, an increase of 12 times! That's right, if you bought the bottom of 8U at that time, buying 10,000 U would become 80,000 U. This is the true meaning of being greedy when others are panicking!​All in all, when the market capitalization of value coins and the top 20 tokens in circulation market capitalization accelerates and causes extreme panic (except for the Luna unlimited issuance mode), it is your time to hunt for the bottom. Every time this kind of coin is deeply shaken and washed, it is for you. Opportunity to get rich!