A whale alert tells you the moment a trader holding a large position - a whale - opens, closes or flips that position. A price chart can't tell you who moved the market. A whale alert tells you who moved, in which direction, and by how much.
How to read each alert type
- Entry - a whale opened a new position. Check first whether it's a long or a short, and how big it is.
- Exit - a whale closed a position. Whether it closed in profit or at a loss tells you a lot about how that trade played out.
- Flip - the whale closed a long and opened a short, or the other way around. A change of mind is worth paying attention to.
- Liquidation - the whale couldn't hold on and the exchange force-closed the position. Large liquidations are filled with market orders, so they can push price further in the same direction.
Why grouping by win rate helps
Not every whale is a good trader. Plenty of whales with deep pockets are wrong more often than they're right. That's why WhaleCue splits whale alerts into high win rate and low win rate whales. Some people follow the high-win-rate whales as a reference and read the low-win-rate whales as a contrarian signal. Win rates are calculated from each whale's past trades according to our internal logic.
A whale's size alone says little. Size plus track record says much more.
How to choose alerts on WhaleCue
- Sign in with Google.
- Open Alerts in the menu and turn on Get alerts on this device.
- Under Whale entries · exits, choose High win rate, All or Low win rate.
- If you only care about one particular whale, turn on Get alerts on that whale's page.
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A few habits that help
- Read the alert together with the liquidation map. An entry right next to a big liquidation cluster means something different from one in open space.
- Look at several whales, not one. A single whale can be hedging a position elsewhere.
- Check how the whale's last trades ended before you give its next move any weight.
A whale alert is not a buy or sell signal. Whales are wrong too, and even with the same position, a whale's capital and leverage are not yours. This is not investment advice; you are responsible for your own decisions and their results.