As soon as you sell out, it will start to soar.

In a bull market, before the main upward wave of altcoins arrives, the big players often use a series of methods to "grind retail investors", also known as "washing the盘" or "throwing off the car". This process is usually excruciating and can easily lead inexperienced or less resolute retail investors to cut their losses and exit at low prices. Here are some common ways to "grind retail investors":
1. Sideways consolidation, wearing down time and patience.
• Method: The coin price oscillates up and down within a small range for a long time, without a clear trend.
• Effect: It makes holders feel "hopeless" and "capital occupied", especially when they see other cryptocurrencies soaring, which intensifies the psychological gap, ultimately leading them to choose to cut losses and switch positions or exit the market.
• Behind the logic: the strong get stronger, and the main uptrend needs to first eliminate the floating capital, allowing the true "steadfast holders" to become the main beneficiaries of future profits.
2. Rapid crash, undermining confidence
• Method: Sudden sharp decline, such as a rapid drop of 10-30%, sometimes guided by false negative news.
• Effect: Many retail investors will panic and stop-loss, especially those using leverage, leading to their assets being liquidated and their coins being bought at low prices by stronger players.
• Underlying logic: Clean up floating funds, reduce the average cost of building positions, while creating the illusion of "shanzhai returning to zero" to free up space for subsequent rises.
3. Pseudo-pump and dump, fraudulent behavior
• Method: Suddenly spike by 5-10%, then quickly drop back, creating the illusion of a "breakthrough."
• Effect: Induce retail investors to FOMO chase high prices, and then get trapped again at short-term peaks, undermining confidence.
• Underlying logic: Test market sentiment and the loosening of chips, clearing out emotional buyers.
4. Message bombing, creating negative news
• Method: Negative news suddenly breaks out on social media, such as project parties running away, outdated technology, being regulated, etc.
• Effect: Causes panic selling, and sometimes these messages are not entirely true.
• Underlying logic: suppress emotions, encourage retail investors to sell actively, or provide an excuse for the main players to accumulate positions at low levels.
5. When Bitcoin is strong, altcoins are relatively weak.
• Method: Bitcoin's rise attracts market attention, while altcoins remain stagnant or even follow the decline without rising.
• Effect: Makes retail investors doubt "this altcoin has no hope", leading them to sell or switch to Bitcoin.
• Underlying logic: The main players quietly accumulate altcoins, waiting for Bitcoin's upward momentum to weaken before launching a rally in the altcoins.
6. Long-term low trading volume creates a "sense of no attention"
• Method: Trading volume is extremely low, and the candlestick patterns are dull and lack any hotspots.
• Effect: Makes retail investors feel like "no one is paying attention to this coin, there is no market", ultimately leading them to sell.
• The underlying logic: the main force suppresses the price to accumulate positions while preventing external attention and avoiding an early pump.
In summary:
"Before the main upward wave, the coin price is as if it's dead; once you sell everything, it starts to soar."