Memecoins are great for Catching Knives: Honest Report
We've seen memecoins holding top positions in exchange top lists of symbols traded by volume as well as being all the rage in the news for quite some time. I decided to launch my AlgoTrading System into the uncharted territory of memecoins, and the results surprised me.
Based on a month's worth of trading data, memecoins have shown excellent mean-reversion characteristics compared to other altcoins that my system has traded before (such as OP, INJ, ARB, and many others).
During market downturns, memecoins tend to exhibit stronger price rebounds from significant horizontal levels compared to other coins. In such instances, price action demonstrates notable upside momentum, indicating high demand.
This characteristic makes memecoins a favorable asset for high-probability long-only scalping strategies and setups.
Why long only? This is the second topic I wanted to touch on. Let's look at BONK: it's market maker is GotBit - a russian company which is one of top world leading market makers. In the recent year their CEO Alex Andryunin started to appear on many podcasts and interviews (in russian language).
In an interview, he literally said that they made a significant profit by liquidating SHORT traders. Although I am not an expert in the relationship between market maker firms and exchanges, I believe MM firms receive some kind of reward or incentive for each liquidation. So, when retail traders were not confident that the price would increase (or after the market maker "drew" this message in the chart), more and more people were opening short trades. Once a critical mass of open interest was on the books, GotBit was able (possibly, not trying to accuse anyone!) to push the price up. Retail traders were then trapped, and given the sharp price movements in memecoins, they were slow to take the loss by exiting, so many people were liquidated.
More and more people look at the chart and think, "These short traders are getting REKT! Now it's time to short. The market maker got his prey, so the price will reverse!" And a new group of traders hop on that wagon...to HELL :)
This is just my theory. It could be that memecoins are so interesting for long scalping setups because market makers are more interested in short sellers.
I don't like when people only talk and provide no proofs. This is trading after all, so where are the trades, right? Here you go!
I think it proves the point, so keep an eye for long bounces on MEME coins!
Thank you for your time reading this article! I hope you found some insight in this information.
And what do you think? Let me know in the comments!
Based on a month's worth of trading data, memecoins have shown excellent mean-reversion characteristics compared to other altcoins that my system has traded before (such as OP, INJ, ARB, and many others).
During market downturns, memecoins tend to exhibit stronger price rebounds from significant horizontal levels compared to other coins. In such instances, price action demonstrates notable upside momentum, indicating high demand.
This characteristic makes memecoins a favorable asset for high-probability long-only scalping strategies and setups.
Why long only? This is the second topic I wanted to touch on. Let's look at BONK: it's market maker is GotBit - a russian company which is one of top world leading market makers. In the recent year their CEO Alex Andryunin started to appear on many podcasts and interviews (in russian language).
In an interview, he literally said that they made a significant profit by liquidating SHORT traders. Although I am not an expert in the relationship between market maker firms and exchanges, I believe MM firms receive some kind of reward or incentive for each liquidation. So, when retail traders were not confident that the price would increase (or after the market maker "drew" this message in the chart), more and more people were opening short trades. Once a critical mass of open interest was on the books, GotBit was able (possibly, not trying to accuse anyone!) to push the price up. Retail traders were then trapped, and given the sharp price movements in memecoins, they were slow to take the loss by exiting, so many people were liquidated.
More and more people look at the chart and think, "These short traders are getting REKT! Now it's time to short. The market maker got his prey, so the price will reverse!" And a new group of traders hop on that wagon...to HELL :)
This is just my theory. It could be that memecoins are so interesting for long scalping setups because market makers are more interested in short sellers.
I don't like when people only talk and provide no proofs. This is trading after all, so where are the trades, right? Here you go!
I think it proves the point, so keep an eye for long bounces on MEME coins!
Thank you for your time reading this article! I hope you found some insight in this information.
And what do you think? Let me know in the comments!
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