Whether you are a day trader or you trade once in a while, you have to align yourself with the smart money, not the dumb money, surf along side the whales,not against them, trading is war and you have to choose your battles correctly
The problem is sometimes whales take action suddenly and chances are we also don't know what whales will do later, although it would be better to trade by following a step whales, but I think whales is currently not visible, even what appears in crypto is small fluctuations and there is no pump or a large dump.