A pump/dump alert fires the second a coin breaks its normal rhythm - a sudden +7% minute, a -12% five-minute flush, volume exploding on nothing. The bot sees it before the chart looks interesting. This guide covers what alerts are, what makes one "GOLD", which charts to open before touching a position, and two real playbooks for LONG and SHORT.
Section 01
What a pump/dump alert actually is
A pump/dump alert is a notification that fires the moment something atypical is happening on the market: a sharp price spike (pump) or sharp drop (dump) backed by abnormal volume. It isn't "buy" or "sell". It is "look at this coin, right now something is not normal." Everything else is noise.
The bot scans Spot & Futures books on Binance, Bybit, MEXC and OKX every single second. If a coin moves +5% or more in 1, 3 or 5 minutes with volume above baseline - a pump alert fires. If it moves -5% or less - a dump alert. All of it before Crypto Twitter or Telegram channels even notice.
Speed is the whole point. On a 1-minute move, whoever reads the alert in the first 10-30 seconds gets the cleanest entry. After 2 minutes everyone can see it on the chart and the edge is gone.
Core idea
A pump/dump alert is not a "buy now" signal. It is a radar ping: "something unusual is happening - go check." What you do with it is your decision. More definitions live in the glossary.
Section 02
Two directions, one physics
There are only two kinds of alert: PUMP (up) and DUMP (down). Both run on the same logic - price + volume + time. The only difference is direction, and therefore the kind of trade a trader might consider.
PUMPMEXC · FUT
1m ago
$BEAT · +7.47% · 1m
Vol 13.9M USDT · 0.5598 → 0.6016 · Potential LONG
DUMPBinance · FUT
3m ago
$XYZ · −8.12% · 3m
Vol 22.1M USDT · 2.4100 → 2.2143 · Potential SHORT
PUMPBybit · FUTGOLD
2m ago
$LDO · +6.3% · 1m
Vol 9.8M USDT · 2.187 → 2.325 · NEW TODAY
Section 03 · Gold
What makes an alert GOLDEN
On the live feed you'll spot alerts with a glowing GOLD tag. A GOLD alert is the first alert for that particular coin in the last 24 hours.
Out of the 1,000+ pumps and dumps the bot fires in 24 hours, only a small portion are GOLD. Once a coin fires its first alert, every subsequent alert for it that day becomes "regular" - price is already moving, volume is already elevated, the crowd already saw it. GOLD is the early bell.
PUMPBinance · FUTGOLD
1m ago
$AVAX · +5.2% · 1m
Vol 18.7M USDT · 26.40 → 27.78 · NEW TODAY
GOLDFirst-today alerts only
On /live there's a GOLD toggle in the bell menu - flip it and the feed shows only first-of-day alerts across every coin. It's the cleanest filter for hunting fresh moves.
Why it matters
Clean entry zone
If there's no earlier alert for this coin today, the move is fresh - you're entering at the start, not at the tail end of the wave. That's why risk/reward on GOLD is best.
When to skip
Move has played out
If the coin already ran +30% in the last 24h on the chart and there's no GOLD alert, the move has already played out.
Rarity
~10% of all alerts
Most days, 80-150 GOLD alerts fire across 2 000+ coins. Less noise means easier filtering and calmer decisions.
Pro tip. Open /live, click the bell in the sidebar, switch to GOLD only. You'll see roughly 5-10× fewer alerts. What's left are the freshest signals of the day - exactly the ones worth tracking.
Section 04 · Charts
Chart checklist before entry
An alert is just a radar ping. Before you touch a position, open the chart and check the items below. If anything screams red - skip the trade.
On /live most of these metrics sit in the dashboard panel. Click any "?" badge on a tile to read the short explainer.
Volume Profile
What to check
Is the volume spike real? On Futures - normal volume × 3-10 is healthy. Below 3× suggests a fake wick. Above 20× usually means news already hit and you're late.
Order Book Walls
What to check
Are there big walls above or below? A 500k USDT ask wall right above the price is a ceiling - not a clean target. A thin book in the direction of the move means price can fly.
Funding Rate
What to check
Is the market overheated with longs? Funding > +0.05% per 8h = longs are paying heavily. Often precedes a squeeze. For dumps: funding < -0.03% means short squeeze risk.
Open Interest
What to check
Is new money flowing in? OI rising with price = fresh longs joining. OI falling with price going up = shorts covering (rally can fade fast). For dumps: OI up + price down = real selling.
Candles
What to check
On the 1m/5m chart the candles should be full-bodied (no thin shadows with tiny bodies) and the price should jump sharply. Long wicks with tiny bodies = a fakeout, the bot caught a flash that's already reversed.
Risk & size
What to check
Always use small leverage and a hard stop-loss to protect the deposit. While you're learning, enter with small amounts - one bad alert without a stop kills more accounts than any chart pattern.
Verdict
If most points are green - the trade can be considered. If half or more look bad, wait for a better setup. This is the checklist that separates disciplined traders from the ones who blow up their account on their favourite memecoin.
Playbook 01 · Long
Scenario 1: LONG entry on a PUMP alert
A pump alert hits. First emotion: "I need to buy right now before it flies." Wrong emotion. Here is the playbook that works.
Read the context
First 5-10 seconds: is the whole market green (BTC/ETH up)? Which exchange fired the alert? How much volume? Volume under 1M USDT usually means manipulation - pass. A lone green coin in a red market is a weak signal, reversion risk is high.
Wait for the pullback
Never enter at the peak of the impulse. Wait for a 30-50% retrace of the move. If the pump was +8%, a clean entry is a return to +4-5% from start. Gives the trade room to breathe without an instant stop.
Know your levels BEFORE clicking
Entry, target and stop-loss are calculated before you touch the open button. Not after. If you can't calculate them in time - you skip the trade. The market gives another in 10-30 minutes.
Exit by plan, not by feeling
Target hit → close 50-70% partial, move the rest to breakeven. Price moving against you → stop-loss fires automatically. No manual stop moves. The biggest account blow-ups happen on "let me wait, maybe it bounces".
Example · $ALT/USDT · pump +8.4% in 3m · Vol 14.2M
Entry (LONG)
0.0648
Target
0.0712
Stop-loss
0.0624
Risk/reward ≈ 1:2.7. That's the floor. If you can't get at least that ratio - skip the trade.
Playbook 02 · Short
Scenario 2: SHORT entry on a DUMP alert
Shorting a dump is the mirror story. But with one critical difference: drops are usually faster and deeper than rises. Fear moves harder than greed. So: tighter stop, earlier partials.
Know why the dump happened
A dump can be technical (large liquidation, cascade) or fundamental (bad news, exploit, delisting). Technical dumps often get bought back fast - shorting is risky. Fundamental dumps keep going and give the trade real room.
Wait for resistance retest
After a dump there's almost always a 30-50% bounce - dip-buyers grab the "discount". That bounce is your short entry. Never short at the very bottom - your stop will fire almost instantly.
Stop above the local high
Stop goes above the last local high before entry. By structure, not by percentage. If the high breaks - the short is wrong, close without regret.
Partial, partial, partial
Drops come in impulses with pullbacks. Don't close all at once - scale out: 50% at first target, 30% at second, 20% left with stop at breakeven. Greed works against you here.
Example · $XYZ/USDT · dump -7.9% in 5m · Vol 21.4M
Entry (SHORT)
2.2850
Target
2.1100
Stop-loss
2.3420
Risk/reward ≈ 1:3.1. On shorts it's often better than on longs - precisely because drops go deeper.
Section 07 · Traps
Four traps that kill accounts
Not every alert is a trade. These four patterns look like the real thing and cost traders money every single day. Learn them, avoid them.
01
The wick pump / stop hunt
Price spikes +9% then immediately returns to base in the same minute. The candle has a huge wick, no body. This wasn't a move - it was someone's stops getting hunted. Volume prints but liquidity was thin.
Check the 1-minute candle after the spike. If body ≪ wick → skip.
02
Manufactured volume
Low-cap altcoin pumps on suspicious volume - but order book depth is under 50k USDT. What looks like "big money entering" is wash trading: same entity buying from themselves to trigger alerts and lure retail.
Check 24h volume vs market cap. If volume > 50% of mcap → avoid.
03
Dead cat bounce
After a massive dump, price bounces +4-6% and a "pump alert" fires. It's not a pump - it's relief-buying into a downtrend. The bounce fails, price drops another leg, longs get flushed.
Check 4-hour chart. Pump inside a downtrend? Counter-trend trade = hard mode.
04
Market-wide move
Alert fires on $COIN, but at the same moment every coin is moving the same way - BTC just pumped, ETH just pumped, Top-10 are all green. This isn't a coin-specific edge. Correlation trade has worse R/R.
Open the dashboard Top Movers. If 8+ coins moving same direction → macro, not alpha.
Important
This is not financial advice
Everything above is a breakdown of alert mechanics and entry-logic examples experienced traders use. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
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