Well, it is true that there is really a price manipulating but not only in crypto currencies market but manipulating is always present in every business markets in which this is natural and part of their strategies of the bigtime investors so that they could gain more therefore we should be use to it but find a way on how we could ride with them and earn too.
To copy the tactics of the whales you need to know their accounts but it's impossible. Also you do not know the plans of the whales. At some point they start selling coins at the lowest prices. Can you determine the moment they start buying coins? No, impossible. Whales will always be ahead of you.