Wally Whale
The Vulture
🐋 Crypto Native 📅 15 years old (Born 2011)"Whales can't hide on-chain. But the real edge isn't following their buys—it's buying their forced sells."
Man in his late 40s with sonar-like awareness. Multiple monitors showing blockchain explorers and liquidation data. Maritime aesthetic with a vulture's patience.
ℹ️ Character descriptions are creative personas representing trading strategy styles. They are not financial advice, promises, or guarantees of performance.
📊 2 Years Performance: We gave Wally Whale $10,000 and let her trade 12 crypto symbols from Jan 3, 2024 to today. 🟢 LIVE
Quick Performance Comparison
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Equity Curve (2 Years)
Combined P&L across all 12 symbols
💰 Trading Activity (2 Years)
⚠️ Important Note:
This simulation tests each symbol with its own $10K account (not pooled).
Crypto symbols can show 40-75%+ fee drag due to high trade frequency.
Stocks are FREE on Alpaca, so the ~100 stock symbols have zero fee impact.
⚙️ Trading Strategy
Buy 3× volume spikes AFTER 15%+ dumps from 24h high
Original strategy (v1) bought volume spikes with rising prices—this caught tops and bled out (-84% avg return). BENED's backtesting revealed the OPPOSITE works. Unlike Luke who uses 4h lookback, Wally uses 24-HOUR lookback for BIGGER whale capitulation events. 604 trades over 2 years with +19% average return.
🎯 Best Suited For
Post-liquidation bounces in volatile crypto
📜 Why This Strategy Works
Luke catches quick liquidation bounces (4h window). Wally catches WHALE-sized capitulation (24h window). Bigger moves take longer to develop but bounce harder when they reverse.
Mathematical Formula
CODE VERIFIED —
These formulas are extracted directly from the simulation engine and verified against the source code.
Source: scripts/run-*-simulation.php
📊 Entry Signal (Whale Capitulation Buy)
📈 Entry Signal (Whale Capitulation Buy)
📉 Exit Conditions
⚙️ Simulation Parameters
📖 Historical Origin
Origin: Blockchain analysts tracking large wallets and capitulation events
By 2011, analysts realized they could track large wallets. The original "follow the whale" thesis seemed logical—but backtesting 2024-2026 data revealed it was a consistent loser. BENED refined the strategy to buy whale CAPITULATION instead of whale accumulation.
🏆 Top 10 Performing Symbols (2 Years)
📉 Worst 5 Performing Symbols (2 Years)
📊 All Symbol Results
Click on any row to see detailed trade history with equity curve
📖 Understanding Score & Momentum columns
Measures how well this strategy+symbol combination has performed across the entire simulation history. Based on return, win rate, drawdown control, profit factor, and trade count. Higher is better.
Measures performance over the last 30 days only. Same quality model but calibrated for short-term activity. Captures recent regime shifts that the lifetime score may miss.
🔥 Heating Up — Mom is 20+ points above Score. This symbol is performing significantly better recently than its lifetime average. Could indicate a favorable regime shift.
🧊 Cooling Off — Mom is 20+ points below Score. This symbol is underperforming recently despite a strong lifetime track record. Could indicate an unfavorable regime shift.
No icon = Steady — Scores within ±20 points. Consistent performance.
| Rank | Symbol | Score | Mom | Return | Start | Final Value | Trades | Win Rate | Fees | Net | Max DD | Avg Hold | Refunds | Last Refund | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SHIBUSD ₿
|
29 | — | +112.55% | $10,000 | $21,255 | 31 | 52% | $4,365 | +$11,255 | -31.6% | 2.6h | ✓ | - | |
| 2 |
PEPEUSD ₿
|
22 | — | +73.12% | $10,000 | $17,312 | 84 | 48% | $23,826 | +$7,312 | -60.1% | 3.5h | ✓ | - | |
| 3 |
SOLUSD ₿
|
15 | — | +21.81% | $10,000 | $12,181 | 19 | 47% | $1,706 | +$2,181 | -15.6% | 3.4h | ✓ | - | |
| 4 |
DOGEUSD ₿
|
16 | — | +18.52% | $10,000 | $11,852 | 36 | 42% | $3,168 | +$1,852 | -32.2% | 4.2h | ✓ | - | |
| 5 |
XRPUSD ₿
|
17 | — | +16.07% | $10,000 | $11,607 | 30 | 53% | $2,071 | +$1,607 | -31.3% | 2.0h | ✓ | - | |
| 6 |
ETHUSD ₿
|
— | — | +9.89% | $10,000 | $10,989 | 17 | 59% | $869 | +$989 | -12.7% | 3.1h | ✓ | - | |
| 7 |
BTCUSD ₿
|
— | — | +7.12% | $10,000 | $10,712 | 5 | 60% | $259 | +$712 | -3.5% | 1.2h | ✓ | - | |
| 8 |
UNIUSD ₿
|
12 | — | +2.95% | $10,000 | $10,295 | 53 | 51% | $3,507 | +$295 | -42.4% | 3.8h | ✓ | - | |
| 9 |
LINKUSD ₿
|
3 | — | -10.37% | $10,000 | $8,963 | 36 | 33% | $2,396 | -$1,037 | -30.8% | 3.4h | ✓ | - | |
| 10 |
DOTUSD ₿
|
5 | — | -15.22% | $10,000 | $8,478 | 38 | 45% | $2,335 | -$1,522 | -31.1% | 3.2h | ✓ | - | |
| 11 |
AVAXUSD ₿
|
4 | — | -20.06% | $10,000 | $7,994 | 38 | 39% | $2,674 | -$2,006 | -45.2% | 2.8h | ✓ | - | |
| 12 |
LTCUSD ₿
|
3 | — | -32.98% | $10,000 | $6,702 | 33 | 36% | $1,601 | -$3,298 | -49.6% | 3.3h | ✓ | - |
👤 Personality
Obsessive researcher. Originally followed whale accumulation, but learned the hard way that buying INTO volume spikes means buying tops. Now waits for capitulation.