Whale Print — Signal Playbook

What it detects

A single unusually large aggressive print hits the tape (top-tier buy or sell notional) with the book leaning the same way — a large participant showing their hand.

How Whale Print paints across a heatmap row — the colour language it speaks on the live map.

How VYX surfaces it

VYX evaluates Whale Print live on every candle across 300+ Hyperliquid markets and paints it onto the heatmap, so an unusual flow reading stands out at a glance instead of hiding in a watchlist. That is the job it does in the workflow: it is a scan filter and a piece of context, not an automatic entry. Scan the map for where Whale Print is firing, focus that market to read the signal against price and the confirmation cues below, and let the next candle or two resolve before acting on it.

How to play it

Use it as scanner context, not an automatic entry:

• Read it as a footprint, not a trigger — note the side and the level.
• Repeated same-side whale prints matter more than one.
• Use it to confirm conviction behind a move you’re already watching.
• Combine with absorption: a whale print that fails to move price is telling.

Confirmation

What strengthens the read:

• Additional same-side prints follow.
• Price moves the print’s direction shortly after.
• Book pressure stays on the print’s side.

Invalidation

What kills it:

• Price doesn’t budge (the print was absorbed).
• An opposite-side print immediately answers it.
• It’s a lone outlier with no context.

Risk & honest evidence

Respect the limits:

• Large prints are direction-agnostic on their own — they can mark tops and bottoms.
• A single print is the weakest form of evidence here.
• Evidence: grounded in market-microstructure research. VYX's own live backtest is still accruing — treat this as scanner context, not a proven edge.