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 14:42 UTC · auto-refreshes every 5 min.
mint firehose: ok · 0s ago
price marks: ok · 0s ago
holder snapshots: ok · 1s ago
Collection — 30.7 hours of continuous capture
mints tracked
34,532
28,566 in 24h
graduations
1,399
1,182 in 24h
Race totals — today (UTC)
MONSTER-HOLD
-75.4%
$424 in · portfolio $104 · 192 bets
pump −$320
DAY-T50
-5.2%
$3,129 in → $2,965 out · 123 bets
gt:robinhood −$95 · gt:solana −$62 · pons −$7
DAY-T25
-3.1%
$3,129 in → $3,033 out · 123 bets
gt:robinhood −$68 · gt:solana −$18 · pons −$9
DAY-HOLD
-7.2%
$3,129 in · portfolio $2,903 · 123 bets
gt:robinhood −$72 · gt:solana −$147 · pons −$7
Race totals — cumulative per book
MONSTER-HOLD
-82.3%
$988 in · portfolio $175 · 447 bets
DAY-T50
-5.2%
$3,129 in → $2,965 out · 123 bets
DAY-T25
-3.1%
$3,129 in → $3,033 out · 123 bets
DAY-HOLD
-7.2%
$3,129 in · portfolio $2,903 · 123 bets
Entry drift — could we fill at our quoted entries?
graduation entries measured
2,968
median next-quote drift
+0.0%
p25 +0.0% · p75 +7.6%
moved >10% against us
23%
median quote gap 764s
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 $60k pool); timing volatility is the whole story. We hold rather than snipe, so entry drift mostly shifts the base, not the thesis.
Race totals — by mint source
| source | MONSTER-HOLD | DAY-T50 | DAY-T25 | DAY-HOLD |
|---|
| gt:robinhood | — | -25% ($-95) | -18% ($-68) | -19% ($-72) |
| gt:solana | — | -2% ($-62) | -1% ($-18) | -5% ($-147) |
| pons | — | -27% ($-7) | -36% ($-9) | -27% ($-7) |
| pump | -82% ($-813) | — | — | — |
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
-82.3%
447 bets · $988 deployed · $175 portfolio value · 104 big winners · top-1 8%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | value | ROI |
|---|
| 07-25 08–12h | 30 | $66 | $3 | -95.8% |
| pump −$64 (30b) |
| 07-25 12–16h | 88 | $195 | $8 | -95.9% |
| pump −$187 (88b) |
| 07-25 16–20h | 77 | $170 | $30 | -82.2% |
| pump −$140 (77b) |
| 07-25 20–24h | 60 | $133 | $30 | -77.6% |
| pump −$103 (60b) |
| 07-26 00–04h | 57 | $126 | $7 | -94.3% |
| pump −$119 (57b) |
| 07-26 04–08h | 49 | $108 | $4 | -96.1% |
| pump −$104 (49b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 53 | $117 | $40 | -65.7% |
| pump −$77 (53b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 33 | $73 | $53 | -27.9% |
| pump −$20 (33b) |
| total | 447 | $988 | $175 | -82.3% |
DAY-T50 — non-pump venues; -50% trailing stop
-5.2%
123 bets · $3,129 deployed · $2,965 back · 17 big winners · top-1 3%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | out | ROI |
|---|
| 07-26 04–08h | 42 | $1,069 | $930 | -12.9% |
| gt:robinhood +$62 (3b) · gt:solana −$200 (39b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,236 | -0.9% |
| gt:robinhood −$104 (6b) · gt:solana +$93 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 32 | $814 | $799 | -1.8% |
| gt:robinhood −$53 (6b) · gt:solana +$45 (25b) · pons −$7 (1b) |
| total | 123 | $3,129 | $2,965 | -5.2% |
DAY-T25 — non-pump venues; -25% trailing stop
-3.1%
123 bets · $3,129 deployed · $3,033 back · 17 big winners · top-1 3%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | out | ROI |
|---|
| 07-26 04–08h | 42 | $1,069 | $978 | -8.5% |
| gt:robinhood +$66 (3b) · gt:solana −$157 (39b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,259 | +1.0% |
| gt:robinhood −$81 (6b) · gt:solana +$94 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 32 | $814 | $797 | -2.1% |
| gt:robinhood −$53 (6b) · gt:solana +$45 (25b) · pons −$9 (1b) |
| total | 123 | $3,129 | $3,033 | -3.1% |
DAY-HOLD — non-pump venues; no exit — the bound the day exits must beat
-7.2%
123 bets · $3,129 deployed · $2,903 portfolio value · 17 big winners · top-1 3%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | value | ROI |
|---|
| 07-26 04–08h | 42 | $1,069 | $938 | -12.2% |
| gt:robinhood +$85 (3b) · gt:solana −$216 (39b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 49 | $1,247 | $1,168 | -6.3% |
| gt:robinhood −$104 (6b) · gt:solana +$26 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 32 | $814 | $797 | -2.1% |
| gt:robinhood −$53 (6b) · gt:solana +$42 (25b) · pons −$7 (1b) |
| total | 123 | $3,129 | $2,903 | -7.2% |
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_grind24ONE-TOKENthin | at_mig24 | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 0% | 1 | 1x | $0.710 |
| grind_24hthin | at_24h | 3 | 0.0% | 1 | 4% | 3 | 1x | $0.709 |
| relaunch_of_win | at_mint | 198 | 0.5% | 53 | 29% | 4 | 15x | $0.417 |
| grad_first | at_migration | 382 | 0.3% | 77 | 42% | 5 | 72x | $0.711 |
| grad_proven | at_migration | 325 | 1.8% | 24 | 13% | 14 | 79x | $0.811 |
| grad_confirm5 | at_mig5 | 2,890 | 9.8% | 172 | 96% | 17 | 51,424x | $0.582 |
| grad_fast30 | at_migration | 2,918 | 9.7% | 172 | 95% | 17 | 51,424x | $0.547 |
| uri_recycled | at_mint | 913 | 0.0% | 53 | 29% | 17 | 15x | $0.127 |
| grad_entry | at_migration | 3,058 | 9.3% | 175 | 96% | 17 | 51,424x | $0.559 |
| grad_oracleORACLE | ORACLE | 3,060 | 9.3% | 175 | 96% | 17 | 51,424x | $0.767 |
| buy_pressure5 | at_5m | 1,968 | 5.2% | 92 | 51% | 21 | 32x | $0.298 |
| green5 | at_5m | 1,125 | 0.2% | 50 | 27% | 22 | 39x | $0.409 |
| replies_gt3thin | at_10m | 62 | 0.0% | 2 | 1% | 31 | 2x | $0.056 |
| vol5_gt1k | at_5m | 5,282 | 5.1% | 166 | 91% | 32 | 176,525x | $0.316 |
| baseline | at_mint | 30,037 | 1.1% | 182 | 100% | 165 | 51,424x | $0.166 |
A filter earns its place by cutting bets faster than it cuts
winners — "keep" is the share of the cohort's 182 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 28h 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.