How to Find Good Trades

Being surrounded by other traders in a group chat is essential. If you find one good coin a week, twenty people doing the same fills the pipeline daily — and closes information gaps you can't close alone. The guide tells a story of nearly holding a coin whose dev account had been hacked; a friend produced a Discord screenshot proving it, he sold, and minutes later the scammer dumped the coin to zero. More shared information = better trades.

Most people refresh X waiting for a bigger account to tell them what to buy. That's following, not trading — and followers arrive late to every party by definition. The cure isn't finding better people to follow; it's developing your own capacity to think. Read outside crypto: understanding how other markets and industries work builds pattern recognition most traders in this space will never have, because everyone else is reading the same viral tweets.

Public call channels range from useful to predatory; private groups are where the real value is. Create your own group, add a scanner bot (like Rick) and make it an administrator. Now anyone pasting a contract address gets instant data — chain, mcap, liquidity, volume, top holders — and the bot tracks who called what first and at what mcap. Even a group of 3–4 people genuinely trying beats a public channel of 50,000.

When a coin looks interesting, paste its CA into the X search bar and check both Top and Latest (skip the bot spam). Then work through this:

• Who's posting? A low-follower account with a genuine thesis beats a big account shilling.
• Do posters actually hold the coin? Wallets don't lie — check bios and Solscan.
• Account history: regular crypto posts, or appeared from nowhere posting 15 coins a day?
• Can you state the narrative in one sentence? If ten posts later you can't — that's information too.
• How old are the earliest posts vs the mcap? Three hours old and fresh = maybe early; three days old and pumped = many are ahead of you.
• Is there an X community? Check the CA in the bio, the pinned narrative, and whether engagement looks organic.

The best trades come from knowing things almost nobody else knows yet — things that would make them buy if they did. The guide's example: a fresh coin by a dev building a neobank; digging revealed he advised another neobank whose coin sat at 50M, his account wasn't hacked, and his track record was elite. Coin at 200k, comparable at 50M — a 250x gap. Research done in minutes, before the information became public, turned 2k into 40k. That's the game: build better information infrastructure than the person on the other side of your trade.