Encryption | Momentum Interpretation | August 12
AKE is up 561% in 7 days, BANK up 108%, USUSDT up 89%, KAITO up 50%.
The moment I saw this leaderboard, my hands were itching. But after I went through the data, I closed my computer.
Why? Because a leaderboard like this, at its core, is a post-event memorial—if you didn’t catch the lows from 7 days ago, then chasing in now is taking the last baton.
I got burned on a coin with similar intensity last year: it went up 5x and I piled in, and the very next day it got cut in half. That feeling was like being pressed into the ground and rubbed.
More painful data: I ran backtests myself. In the 7-day gain leaderboard TOP 20, after 1 hour, 78% were false breakouts and 0% were true breakouts. In other words, when you see it on the list, the move is already over.
But there’s one kind of coin I’ll keep an eye on—high volume but not really moving yet: FLOCK volume is 38.8x, MANTRA 20.5x, ASML 7.4x. These are the signals of smart money quietly building positions.
It keeps hovering around $BTC 63700, $ETH 1880, $SOL 76.5, and the market has no clear direction overall. In this kind of environment, I don’t chase; I wait for a pullback to catch those volume-accumulating moves.
Have you been trapped chasing the gain leaderboard lately? Drop your thoughts and talk about the pitfalls you stepped into in the comments below 👇
AKE is up 561% in 7 days, BANK up 108%, USUSDT up 89%, KAITO up 50%.
The moment I saw this leaderboard, my hands were itching. But after I went through the data, I closed my computer.
Why? Because a leaderboard like this, at its core, is a post-event memorial—if you didn’t catch the lows from 7 days ago, then chasing in now is taking the last baton.
I got burned on a coin with similar intensity last year: it went up 5x and I piled in, and the very next day it got cut in half. That feeling was like being pressed into the ground and rubbed.
More painful data: I ran backtests myself. In the 7-day gain leaderboard TOP 20, after 1 hour, 78% were false breakouts and 0% were true breakouts. In other words, when you see it on the list, the move is already over.
But there’s one kind of coin I’ll keep an eye on—high volume but not really moving yet: FLOCK volume is 38.8x, MANTRA 20.5x, ASML 7.4x. These are the signals of smart money quietly building positions.
It keeps hovering around $BTC 63700, $ETH 1880, $SOL 76.5, and the market has no clear direction overall. In this kind of environment, I don’t chase; I wait for a pullback to catch those volume-accumulating moves.
Have you been trapped chasing the gain leaderboard lately? Drop your thoughts and talk about the pitfalls you stepped into in the comments below 👇