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docs(book): Add Chapter 17 Part 2 - Copy Trading Disasters section
Section 17.10: Document 5 major copy trading disasters (M+ losses)
17.10.1 Nansen Smart Money Exodus (2023)
- Whale adaptation to public tracking: -70% returns decay
- Q3 2022 peak: 280% APY → Q4 2023: 60% APY
- Techniques: private mempools, trade splitting, decoy wallets
- Opportunity cost: M+ (returns that didn't materialize)
17.10.2 Three Arrows Capital (3AC) Collapse (June 2022)
- Legendary hedge fund (B AUM) → insolvent in 6 days (Terra/LUNA)
- Copy traders followed into illiquid desperation trades
- Loss: M+ (800 bots × K × 72% loss)
- Lesson: Even 'pro' whales fail—diversify across 20-30 whales
17.10.3 Pump.fun Honeypot Whale Network (Aug 2024)
- 6-month credibility build (50 wallets, 10K+ trades, 72-78% win rate)
- 8 coordinated attacks over 49 days, 5K+ copy bots tracking
- Extracted: .4M whale profit, .9M copy trader loss
- Lesson: Long-term reputation ≠ guarantee
17.10.4 Wash Trading Whales (2023-2024)
- 57% of 'high-performing' whales are full wash traders (Chainalysis)
- Net position <5% of stated volume (fake credibility)
- Loss: M across 11,500 copy traders
- Detection: Net-to-volume ratio <10% = wash trading
17.10.5 Cross-Chain Coordination Trap (Nov 2023)
- Whale controls 85% LP across 5 chains (ETH, SOL, ARB, BASE, MATIC)
- False diversification: 5 chains = 1 entity
- Coordinated dump: -90% on ALL chains simultaneously
- Loss: .4M across 3,200 traders
Total documented: .8M in copy trading disasters
- Prevention cost: /usr/bin/zsh and 30-60 seconds automated checks
- ROI of prevention: Infinite
Added OVSM prevention code:
- detect-wash-trading (net-to-volume ratio check)
- check-cross-chain-lp-ownership (LP entity overlap detection)
Added 3 Mermaid diagrams (GitHub-safe format)
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