Meme-coin lottery — forward testPAPER ONLY
Strategy under test: many small bets, paid for by the rare monster.
A win rate as low as 1% is fine — at $2.21 a bet, one true 1000x
($2.1M market cap from a ~$2.1k launch) returns roughly
$1,900 before depth caps and carries ~859
losers on its back. Stakes: pump $2, every other venue $25; every entry pays constant-product
impact against its entry pool. Everything below is measured through that lens:
keep the future monsters in the net, cut everything else.
No real money. Updated 2026-07-26 19:57 UTC · auto-refreshes every 5 min.
mint firehose: ok · 2s ago
price marks: ok · -0s ago
holder snapshots: ok · 1s ago
Collection — 35.9 hours of continuous capture
mints tracked
45,604
32,663 in 24h
graduations
1,791
1,281 in 24h
Race totals — today (UTC)
MONSTER-HOLD
-71.5%
$562 in · portfolio $160 · 254 bets
pump −$402
DAY-T50
-13.9%
$5,012 in → $4,315 out · 197 bets
gt:robinhood −$134 · gt:solana −$544 · pons −$19
DAY-T25
-10.9%
$5,012 in → $4,465 out · 197 bets
gt:robinhood −$60 · gt:solana −$470 · pons −$17
DAY-HOLD
-17.1%
$5,012 in · portfolio $4,156 · 197 bets
gt:robinhood −$130 · gt:solana −$707 · pons −$19
Race totals — cumulative per book
MONSTER-HOLD
-80.6%
$1,126 in · portfolio $218 · 509 bets
DAY-T50
-13.9%
$5,012 in → $4,315 out · 197 bets
DAY-T25
-10.9%
$5,012 in → $4,465 out · 197 bets
DAY-HOLD
-17.1%
$5,012 in · portfolio $4,156 · 197 bets
Entry drift — could we fill at our quoted entries?
graduation entries measured
4,363
median next-quote drift
+0.0%
p25 +0.0% · p75 +4.1%
moved >10% against us
21%
median quote gap 916s
Drift between our entry quote and the next quote — the realistic band a ~1-minute-latency fill lands in. Price impact at $2 size is negligible (~0.003% into a $60k pool); timing volatility is the whole story. We hold rather than snipe, so entry drift mostly shifts the base, not the thesis.
Race totals — by mint source
| source | MONSTER-HOLD | DAY-T50 | DAY-T25 | DAY-HOLD |
|---|
| gt:robinhood | — | -13% ($-134) | -6% ($-60) | -13% ($-130) |
| gt:solana | — | -14% ($-544) | -12% ($-470) | -18% ($-707) |
| pons | — | -38% ($-19) | -33% ($-17) | -38% ($-19) |
| pump | -81% ($-908) | — | — | — |
Each cell: ROI (net $) for that book's tranches on coins
from that source. gt:* rows are pool-birth entries from the GeckoTerminal catcher.
Strategy race — two books, same store, settled identically
MONSTER-HOLD — pump graduations, $2 lottery tickets; never sold — depth-capped mark-to-market
-80.6%
509 bets · $1,126 deployed · $218 portfolio value · 118 big winners · top-1 17%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | value | ROI |
|---|
| 07-25 08–12h | 30 | $66 | $3 | -95.8% |
| pump −$64 (30b) |
| 07-25 12–16h | 88 | $195 | $6 | -97.0% |
| pump −$189 (88b) |
| 07-25 16–20h | 77 | $170 | $25 | -85.4% |
| pump −$145 (77b) |
| 07-25 20–24h | 60 | $133 | $24 | -81.6% |
| pump −$108 (60b) |
| 07-26 00–04h | 57 | $126 | $6 | -95.1% |
| pump −$120 (57b) |
| 07-26 04–08h | 49 | $108 | $3 | -97.3% |
| pump −$105 (49b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 53 | $117 | $7 | -93.6% |
| pump −$110 (53b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 50 | $111 | $39 | -64.4% |
| pump −$71 (50b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 45 | $100 | $104 | +4.6% |
| pump +$5 (45b) |
| total | 509 | $1,126 | $218 | -80.6% |
DAY-T50 — non-pump venues; -50% trailing stop
-13.9%
197 bets · $5,012 deployed · $4,315 back · 25 big winners · top-1 2%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | out | ROI |
|---|
| 07-26 04–08h | 42 | $1,069 | $881 | -17.5% |
| gt:robinhood +$62 (3b) · gt:solana −$249 (39b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,119 | -10.2% |
| gt:robinhood −$107 (6b) · gt:solana −$21 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 57 | $1,450 | $1,298 | -10.5% |
| gt:robinhood −$48 (16b) · gt:solana −$92 (40b) · pons −$12 (1b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,016 | -18.5% |
| gt:robinhood −$41 (15b) · gt:solana −$182 (33b) · pons −$8 (1b) |
| total | 197 | $5,012 | $4,315 | -13.9% |
DAY-T25 — non-pump venues; -25% trailing stop
-10.9%
197 bets · $5,012 deployed · $4,465 back · 25 big winners · top-1 3%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | out | ROI |
|---|
| 07-26 04–08h | 42 | $1,069 | $928 | -13.1% |
| gt:robinhood +$66 (3b) · gt:solana −$206 (39b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,145 | -8.2% |
| gt:robinhood −$81 (6b) · gt:solana −$20 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 57 | $1,450 | $1,317 | -9.2% |
| gt:robinhood −$32 (16b) · gt:solana −$92 (40b) · pons −$9 (1b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,075 | -13.8% |
| gt:robinhood −$12 (15b) · gt:solana −$152 (33b) · pons −$8 (1b) |
| total | 197 | $5,012 | $4,465 | -10.9% |
DAY-HOLD — non-pump venues; no exit — the bound the day exits must beat
-17.1%
197 bets · $5,012 deployed · $4,156 portfolio value · 25 big winners · top-1 2%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | value | ROI |
|---|
| 07-26 04–08h | 42 | $1,069 | $894 | -16.4% |
| gt:robinhood +$90 (3b) · gt:solana −$265 (39b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,046 | -16.1% |
| gt:robinhood −$108 (6b) · gt:solana −$93 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 57 | $1,450 | $1,239 | -14.5% |
| gt:robinhood −$52 (16b) · gt:solana −$147 (40b) · pons −$12 (1b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 49 | $1,247 | $977 | -21.7% |
| gt:robinhood −$60 (15b) · gt:solana −$202 (33b) · pons −$8 (1b) |
| total | 197 | $5,012 | $4,156 | -17.1% |
Two strategies, separated because they were always different games. MONSTER-HOLD: $2 lottery tickets on every pump.fun graduation with ≥$5k of sane pool depth, never sold — the tail thesis (monsters take 19–140 days), measured in weeks not hours. DAY-*: $25 positions on every non-pump graduation with ≥$50k of sane depth — fast-settling pool trades where the exit rule is the open question, so −50% / −25% trails race the never-sell bound. All entries pay constant-product impact; meteora is cut on both books; ruggers and serial-dud creators cut. The grey sub-line under each 4h block splits that block's net by mint source.
Filter scoreboard — ranked by bets per kept big winner
| filter | decides | bets | rug% |
wins kept | keep | bets/win | best | EV |
| grad_grind24thin | at_mig24 | 4 | 0.0% | 3 | 4% | 1 | 1x | $0.814 |
| grind_24hthin | at_24h | 6 | 0.0% | 2 | 4% | 3 | 1x | $0.761 |
| relaunch_of_win | at_mint | 244 | 0.4% | 59 | 25% | 4 | 15x | $0.441 |
| grad_first | at_migration | 464 | 0.2% | 87 | 38% | 5 | 72x | $0.671 |
| grad_proven | at_migration | 386 | 1.6% | 27 | 12% | 14 | 79x | $0.806 |
| uri_recycled | at_mint | 1,016 | 0.0% | 59 | 25% | 17 | 15x | $0.140 |
| grad_confirm5 | at_mig5 | 4,283 | 9.7% | 219 | 95% | 20 | 74,314,339,400,448,736x | $0.537 |
| grad_fast30 | at_migration | 4,286 | 9.7% | 218 | 94% | 20 | 74,314,339,400,448,736x | $0.507 |
| grad_entry | at_migration | 4,451 | 9.4% | 222 | 96% | 20 | 74,314,339,400,448,736x | $0.517 |
| grad_oracleORACLE | ORACLE | 4,454 | 9.4% | 222 | 96% | 20 | 74,314,339,400,448,736x | $0.703 |
| buy_pressure5 | at_5m | 2,154 | 6.1% | 107 | 46% | 20 | 40x | $0.322 |
| green5 | at_5m | 1,125 | 0.2% | 50 | 22% | 22 | 39x | $0.407 |
| vol5_gt1k | at_5m | 5,790 | 6.8% | 213 | 92% | 27 | 14,677x | $0.354 |
| buyers5_gt10 | at_5m | 7,232 | 6.0% | 218 | 94% | 33 | 14,677x | $0.342 |
| baseline | at_mint | 39,595 | 1.3% | 232 | 100% | 171 | 74,314,339,400,448,736x | $0.193 |
A filter earns its place by cutting bets faster than it cuts
winners — "keep" is the share of the cohort's 232 big winners it retained; a filter that
boosts EV but drops the monsters is a trap. Green EV clears the cost line ($2.21 at the $2 reference stake — race stakes differ per venue).
ORACLE = needs future knowledge, ceiling only. ONE-TOKEN = result rides on a single coin.
Winners study — what the $200k+ class looked like at launch
winners crawled
425
crawl 33h old
first-ever launches
86%
rotation-blind — see note
median mint→ATH
6d
48% took >7 days
| ATH tier | n | median days to ATH | first-launch creators |
|---|
| $200k–1M | 105 | 19d | 75% |
| $1M–10M | 98 | 70d | 83% |
| >$10M | 73 | 140d | 79% |
One-shot crawl of pump.fun's listing, survivor-biased by
design (listed by CURRENT mcap, so collapsed winners are invisible). ATHs are pump-tracker prints
with no realizability leg — wash-printable, and one confirmed $60M farm print is in the set.
"First-launch" cannot see wallet rotation (URI-lineage lower bound: 2 of 365 rotated).
The duration findings are robust to both: monsters grind for weeks, they do not spike.
Staged entries — pyramid tickets into coins that keep proving themselves
| plan | bets | deployed | returned | ROI | winners held |
Instead of one ticket at mint, tickets are added as a coin
passes survival gates: graduation, then still-grinding a day later (≥$60k, within 50% of its high,
live quote), then again at day 3. Winners grind for weeks — persistence is the signal. Gate tranches
activate once coins age past each gate; each tranche settles at its own entry price.
Predictions
None yet — deliberately.
Predictions start publishing here when a filter stack clears
the cost line over a multi-week window with a sample no single coin dominates. Current best honest
candidate: buy at graduation — keeps ~93% of big winners in ~3% of the bets and sits above
cost — with cheap pre-screens (early-buyer count) that so far cut over half the bets while keeping
every winner. Until then this page reports measurements, not tips.