Whale Alert System
Real-time notification system for large order placement and smart money movements. Framework: Python + requests.
Live Output Preview
If you ran this bot right now, the API would return:
# Live API output — March 12, 2026 Market Regime: Mean-Reverting Safety Score: 96.2 (HIGH) Composite Signals: BTC: buy (score: 0.172)\n ETH: buy (score: 0.228)\n SOL: buy (score: 0.219)\n HYPE: strong_buy (score: 0.371)\n # The bot would use this data to make trading decisions
Complete Source Code
Copy this code, replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key, and run:
import requests, time, json
API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
BASE = "https://algotick.dev"
def monitor_whales():
"""Alert on significant whale activity across all coins."""
for coin in ["BTC", "ETH", "SOL", "HYPE"]:
resp = requests.get(f"{{BASE}}/v1/signals/whale-flow",
params={{"coin": coin, "api_key": API_KEY}})
data = resp.json()
imbalance = data.get("whale_imbalance", 0)
orders = data.get("whale_orders", [])
bid_total = data.get("total_whale_bid_usd", 0)
ask_total = data.get("total_whale_ask_usd", 0)
if abs(imbalance) > 0.3:
direction = "BUYING" if imbalance > 0 else "SELLING"
print(f"\n[WHALE ALERT] {{coin}} — {{direction}}")
print(f" Imbalance: {{imbalance:.3f}}")
print(f" Bid pressure: ${{bid_total:,.0f}}")
print(f" Ask pressure: ${{ask_total:,.0f}}")
for order in orders[:5]:
side = order.get("side", "?")
size = order.get("size_usd", 0)
price = order.get("price", 0)
print(f" {{side.upper()}} ${{size:,.0f}} @ ${{price:,.2f}}")
while True:
monitor_whales()
time.sleep(30)
Setup Instructions
- Get an API key from the API page
- Replace
YOUR_API_KEYin the code above - Install dependencies:
pip install requests(Python) ornpm install node-fetch(TypeScript) - Run the script and monitor the output
- Connect your exchange API for live trading
API Endpoints Used
Framework
Python + requests
Data Source
Algo Tick API
# All endpoints used by this template:
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://algotick.dev/v3/signals/regime
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://algotick.dev/v1/signals/composite
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://algotick.dev/v3/signals/safety
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