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Your goal: Find the next $BODEN: 1000x in 1 month!

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Reality - Pain Level 1

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Reality - Pain Level 2

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Reality - Pain Level 3

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How To Trade Memecoins Effectively?

A Data-Driven Approach to Trading Memecoins

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Part 1: Theory (what, why, how, where)

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Memecoin unique patterns

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Memecoin unique patterns

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Memecoin unique patterns

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Why you should trade memecoins

  • Memecoins launch at <$1M mc compared to >$1b for some VC funded projects
  • Biggest returns: Up to 10’000x
  • Simple: No VC, No vesting, no unlocks, ~No airdrops → Supply
  • No locking of funds in risky smart contracts
  • Rotations work really well. Shib -> Pepe -> Wif -> Boden, etc.
  • Long lasting narrative
  • It’s fun

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Why you should not trade memecoins

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  • Extremely volatile
  • Very high rate of rug pulls
  • Insiders control the supply and are ready to dump on you
  • Snipers, Telegram bots, team and friends bought before you
  • MEV front-runs you (study jaredfromsubway.eth)
  • Cherry picked success stories on CT

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How can YOU make money from memecoins

  1. How much money you want to make realistically? 2x? 10x? 100x? 1000x?
  2. How much time do you have to dedicate to this?
  3. How good are you at trading?
  4. How strong is your trading psychology?
  5. What does your past memecoin trades look like?

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What is a good memecoin?

  • Very strong community -> Social presence
  • Healthy token supply distribution
  • Unique
  • Fun

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Tips

  • Study extreme volatility
  • Don’t use leverage
  • Eliminate fomo completely - Trade like a machine -> Position size
  • Understand memecoin season (Q1 2024, Q2 2023, etc.) and market conditions
  • Study parabolic moves
  • Study adoption Waves
  • Forget about TA
  • Understand market cap (SHIB won’t 1000x from here)
  • Study meme culture - Alignment with internet trends
  • Bet on the leader (pepe vs pepe3, biden vs boden, slerf vs blerf, wif vs arbitrum wif, etc.)
  • Don’t hold long-term memes. Learn to become good at taking profits.
  • Select a chain (Solana) and a standard (erc20) to limit your choices
  • Don’t sell early or for 50%
  • Be open to rotations
  • Specialize. If you wanna do memes, do memes only.
  • Don’t be exit liquidity. Understand the game
  • Learn CT codes (study shillers, etc.)
  • Check smart contract
  • Don’t blow up -> Risk management -> Position size
  • Focus on longevity rather a lottery win

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Understand market conditions and meme season

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Analyse Social accounts

  • Twitter:
    1. Number of followers and its growth
    2. Engagement
    3. Ticker mentions, frequency
  • Telegram & Discord
    • Active participation of community, and team
    • Vibrant community
  • Website

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Learn CT codes

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Learn CT codes

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Adoption Waves - Wave 1

  • Highest RR
  • Low win rate
  • Stressful
  • Highest rugpull rate
  • Smart contract skills

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Adoption Waves - Wave 2

  • Good RR
  • win rate ok
  • Lowest conviction?
  • Less rugpulls

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Adoption Waves - Wave 3

  • Lower RR?
  • Higher win rate
  • Easier
  • No rugpulls
  • No Smart contract skills

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Decide which Wave you want to trade

They are each very different

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Typical Wave 1

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Check smart contract

  • Verified source code
  • Malicious functions
  • Buy/Sell tax

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Part 2: Where to start

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On-chain

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Social + On-chain

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Social + On-chain

https://dune.com/cryptokoryo/farcaster-trends

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Pay attention to rotations

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Tools

  1. dextools.io /dexscreener.com
  2. Etherscan
  3. Coingecko
  4. Twitter / Farcaster
  5. Dune

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Case study

$ANDY

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Focus

  • AI memecoins (GPU, openAI, closedAI, etc. )
  • Political(BODEN, MAGA, TRUMP)
  • Blockchain ($BITCOIN, $SOLANA, $ETHEREUM)
  • Personalities ($ELON, etc.)
  • Catalysts ($SEC, $THIS, $)
  • Ecosystem (WIF -> Solana, BALD -> Base, AIDOGE-> Arbitrum, etc.)
  • Solana memecoins
  • Cultural memecoins
  • …

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Strategy I: Buy the dip on blue chips

  • Blue Chips don’t go to zero
  • Buy on >40% pullbacks
  • Buy when it’s not memecoin season

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Strategy II: Trade the most trendy memecoins

  • Follow the trend
  • Detect what (new) memecoins are trending on social media

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Strategy III: Lottery ticket - Ape left and right

  • Define a monthly budget for memecoins. Let’s say $5k
  • Throw $500 on 10 different wave 1 memecoins per month
  • Let each run at least 4 weeks
  • Pray, rinse and repeat
  • Eventually, some will do 10x/100x and maybe 1000x

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Memecoin strategy

  • Improve your win rate:
    1. Less rug pulls
    2. Less trades
    3. Higher conviction plays
  • Better RR
    • Buy the dip
    • Don’t take profit early
  • Prioritize RR - Get used to low win rate (psychology)
  • Ape first, think later - Rewire your brain
  • Well diversified

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Risk management

  • Position size
  • N small = Too risky
  • N high = No big wins, too much effort
  • Build a meme portfolio:
    • N=4 high conviction
    • N=8 Better diversification
  • Diversification
    • Chains (Solana, Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum)
    • Themes (Dog, cat)
    • Time (DCA, etc.)

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Is it for you?

  • Give it a try
  • Other narratives are much easier

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Final tips

  • To make money, you need to put the effort
  • Become 1% better every week
  • You only need one 1000x
  • Find your strength
  • It takes time
  • It’s possible
  • Enjoy!

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