$PENGU The current position doesn’t feel comfortable: 0.010 is up and down, and there’s still an 85% gap to fill to reach the ATH. But over the past seven trading days, nearly 30% of the gains have already been made. Based on my usual habit of reviewing the chart, the most critical node of this market cycle isn’t today—it’s between September 22 and 23.

In the 10 days in mid-September, $PENGU consolidated and bottomed out with reduced volume in the 0.0068–0.0073 range. The lowest volume was squeezed down to 60M, which is a typical stage where no one is willing to sell. Then on September 22, volume suddenly picked up to 320M, and on the 23rd it directly surged to 512M. The price moved from 0.0078 up to 0.010—that’s the real confirmation of traded volume for this upswing.

At the 0.01 level, the focus of the order book isn’t simply on continuing to rise—it’s on turnover. In the past three days, volume has still stayed above 260M, yet the price hasn’t broken below 0.0095, which suggests that there are indeed buyers absorbing. But over the last 24 hours, volume has fallen from 512M to around 260M, and the sense of urgency behind the pump is fading.

What I care more about is that $PENGU ’s market cap ranking has already returned to #98. That means this is a coin the whole market is willing to look at again—not just a single-coin anomaly. However, the one-year drop of -62% and the dense overhead trapped positions above the ATH imply that on every rebound, some people will consider exiting.

What no one knows yet—and hasn’t been verified—is whether the coin price can hold in the 0.0097–0.0103 range after relying on daily active volume above 260M, and then wait for the second wave of volume expansion. That’s the real watershed for whether this rally can upgrade from a minor bounce into a medium-term recovery.