The red candle is already the end of the story.

A real rug can start much earlier.

15 new wallets, if we believe the source, accumulated 224.5M $XAUT and later sold everything for 3,178 $SOL

Entry cost — about $18.6K.
Exit — about $330K.

And this is where I wouldn’t get fixated on a pretty 17x.

Something else is more important: information asymmetry.

An ordinary trader sees rising volume and starts FOMO.

Meanwhile, a large holder may already be thinking only about where to unload the position.

So volume without context is just a number.

Who creates the volume?
Who controls liquidity?
And who will be left with tokens when the music stops?

These are the questions I would ask before buying a beautiful candle.