Last night while watching the market, I suddenly remembered my painful loss from years ago, which is just like looking in a mirror compared to the current ETH trend.

Having been in the crypto space for 6 years, I've seen many washing tactics. On the surface, it looks like it's dropping to the point where you want to uninstall the app, but in reality, every step is part of a big fund's plan.

I also started as a newcomer and got cut along the way. After stepping into countless traps, I finally understood: big players don't wash the market to crash the price, but to drive away those retail investors who can't hold on, allowing new funds to enter at a high position. If I had understood these common tactics earlier, I could have paid at least half the tuition.

**Slow Decline, Special Treatment for the Impatient**

Last month, I was watching a certain coin that started at $1.2 and kept going down, dropping 3% to 5% daily, without even a decent rebound. After watching it for almost a week, I was really anxious: "Is this thing going to zero?"

The more I thought about it, the more wrong it felt, and I couldn't help but liquidate my position. As a result, three days later, on-chain data showed that there was a lot of money accumulating around $0.9, and the turnover rate exploded.

This is a typical case of "boiling a frog in warm water". Creating a panic atmosphere with a no-volume slow decline, forcing you to give up your cheap chips. Later, I learned to be smart: when encountering a slow decline without clear negative news, don't rush to look at the K-line, check the on-chain capital flow instead. As long as the big funds haven't run away, holding on often brings surprises (provided that the project itself is reliable).

**Inducing Rebounds, Specially Targeting Bottom-Feeding Investors**

There's an even sneakier trick—after a sharp drop, there's a quick rebound.