Let the whales do their thing for awhile, I am pretty sure that they're going to want the prices jacked up eventually, you can't just go dumping forever, I am pretty sure that we will be able to reach that price, remember that there's still a lot of time and if you're in it for the long-term, you can just always buy more while waiting for that target price to show up.
Whales will be always there to take advantage of the situation and this kind of thing is their living material .
they even make fool of many so they can take their chances in .
Unfortunately whales do not even just fake people out of movements, they also have the money so sometimes they force their way into it. If people are selling because something is going on in the world, they can cover all of that and keep the price above 40k with all their money, so people will see that as a good sign and buy, and then whales could dump it on them. That is only doable with the money they have, it is not just about being smart or anything like that, it is about having money.
Retail investors like you and me do not have that communication. We can't just get together and say "lets buy bitcoin all at once", it won't work, but when you have just 10-50 number of people and do it together, it could work very well.