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 16:57 UTC · auto-refreshes every 5 min.
mint firehose: ok · 12s ago
price marks: ok · 1s ago
holder snapshots: ok · 3s ago
Collection — 32.9 hours of continuous capture
mints tracked
39,025
30,272 in 24h
graduations
1,584
1,258 in 24h
Race totals — today (UTC)
MONSTER-HOLD
-79.7%
$482 in · portfolio $98 · 218 bets
pump −$384
DAY-T50
-4.6%
$4,045 in → $3,859 out · 159 bets
gt:robinhood −$47 · gt:solana −$130 · pons −$9
DAY-T25
-2.9%
$4,045 in → $3,929 out · 159 bets
gt:robinhood −$20 · gt:solana −$87 · pons −$9
DAY-HOLD
-6.8%
$4,045 in · portfolio $3,769 · 159 bets
gt:robinhood −$22 · gt:solana −$246 · pons −$9
Race totals — cumulative per book
MONSTER-HOLD
-85.1%
$1,046 in · portfolio $156 · 473 bets
DAY-T50
-4.6%
$4,045 in → $3,859 out · 159 bets
DAY-T25
-2.9%
$4,045 in → $3,929 out · 159 bets
DAY-HOLD
-6.8%
$4,045 in · portfolio $3,769 · 159 bets
Entry drift — could we fill at our quoted entries?
graduation entries measured
3,581
median next-quote drift
+0.0%
p25 +0.0% · p75 +6.3%
moved >10% against us
22%
median quote gap 872s
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 $60k pool); timing volatility is the whole story. We hold rather than snipe, so entry drift mostly shifts the base, not the thesis.
Race totals — by mint source
| source | MONSTER-HOLD | DAY-T50 | DAY-T25 | DAY-HOLD |
|---|
| gt:robinhood | — | -7% ($-47) | -3% ($-20) | -3% ($-22) |
| gt:solana | — | -4% ($-130) | -3% ($-87) | -7% ($-246) |
| pons | — | -36% ($-9) | -36% ($-9) | -36% ($-9) |
| pump | -85% ($-890) | — | — | — |
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
-85.1%
473 bets · $1,046 deployed · $156 portfolio value · 110 big winners · top-1 10%
| block (UTC) | bets | in | value | ROI |
|---|
| 07-25 08–12h | 30 | $66 | $3 | -96.0% |
| pump −$64 (30b) |
| 07-25 12–16h | 88 | $195 | $7 | -96.6% |
| pump −$188 (88b) |
| 07-25 16–20h | 77 | $170 | $25 | -85.5% |
| pump −$146 (77b) |
| 07-25 20–24h | 60 | $133 | $25 | -81.5% |
| pump −$108 (60b) |
| 07-26 00–04h | 57 | $126 | $7 | -94.2% |
| pump −$119 (57b) |
| 07-26 04–08h | 49 | $108 | $4 | -96.6% |
| pump −$105 (49b) |
| 07-26 08–12h | 53 | $117 | $10 | -91.3% |
| pump −$107 (53b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 50 | $111 | $65 | -41.6% |
| pump −$46 (50b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 9 | $20 | $12 | -39.5% |
| pump −$8 (9b) |
| total | 473 | $1,046 | $156 | -85.1% |
DAY-T50 — non-pump venues; -50% trailing stop
-4.6%
159 bets · $4,045 deployed · $3,859 back · 23 big winners · top-1 3%
| 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 | $1,148 | -7.9% |
| gt:robinhood −$104 (6b) · gt:solana +$5 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 57 | $1,450 | $1,514 | +4.4% |
| gt:robinhood −$3 (16b) · gt:solana +$75 (40b) · pons −$9 (1b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 11 | $280 | $316 | +12.9% |
| gt:robinhood −$2 (3b) · gt:solana +$38 (8b) |
| total | 159 | $4,045 | $3,859 | -4.6% |
DAY-T25 — non-pump venues; -25% trailing stop
-2.9%
159 bets · $4,045 deployed · $3,929 back · 23 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 | $1,171 | -6.1% |
| gt:robinhood −$81 (6b) · gt:solana +$5 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 57 | $1,450 | $1,514 | +4.4% |
| gt:robinhood −$3 (16b) · gt:solana +$75 (40b) · pons −$9 (1b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 11 | $280 | $316 | +12.9% |
| gt:robinhood −$2 (3b) · gt:solana +$38 (8b) |
| total | 159 | $4,045 | $3,929 | -2.9% |
DAY-HOLD — non-pump venues; no exit — the bound the day exits must beat
-6.8%
159 bets · $4,045 deployed · $3,769 portfolio value · 23 big winners · top-1 3%
| 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 | $1,076 | -13.7% |
| gt:robinhood −$104 (6b) · gt:solana −$67 (43b) |
| 07-26 12–16h | 57 | $1,450 | $1,484 | +2.3% |
| gt:robinhood −$6 (16b) · gt:solana +$49 (40b) · pons −$9 (1b) |
| 07-26 16–20h | 11 | $280 | $315 | +12.5% |
| gt:robinhood −$2 (3b) · gt:solana +$37 (8b) |
| total | 159 | $4,045 | $3,769 | -6.8% |
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 | 2 | 0.0% | 1 | 14% | 2 | 1x | $0.709 |
| grind_24hthin | at_24h | 4 | 0.0% | 1 | 3% | 4 | 1x | $0.691 |
| relaunch_of_win | at_mint | 216 | 0.5% | 54 | 26% | 4 | 15x | $0.433 |
| grad_first | at_migration | 416 | 0.2% | 83 | 39% | 5 | 72x | $0.685 |
| grad_proven | at_migration | 366 | 1.6% | 25 | 12% | 15 | 79x | $0.804 |
| uri_recycled | at_mint | 937 | 0.0% | 54 | 26% | 17 | 15x | $0.135 |
| grad_confirm5 | at_mig5 | 3,492 | 10.0% | 200 | 96% | 17 | 476,433x | $0.562 |
| grad_fast30 | at_migration | 3,510 | 10.0% | 200 | 95% | 18 | 476,433x | $0.531 |
| grad_entry | at_migration | 3,660 | 9.6% | 203 | 96% | 18 | 476,433x | $0.542 |
| grad_oracleORACLE | ORACLE | 3,661 | 9.6% | 203 | 96% | 18 | 476,433x | $0.733 |
| buy_pressure5 | at_5m | 2,066 | 6.0% | 100 | 47% | 21 | 40x | $0.316 |
| green5 | at_5m | 1,125 | 0.2% | 50 | 24% | 22 | 39x | $0.407 |
| vol5_gt1k | at_5m | 5,525 | 6.0% | 192 | 91% | 29 | 14,677x | $0.333 |
| buyers5_gt10 | at_5m | 6,952 | 5.4% | 197 | 93% | 35 | 14,677x | $0.324 |
| baseline | at_mint | 33,886 | 1.2% | 211 | 100% | 161 | 476,433x | $0.179 |
A filter earns its place by cutting bets faster than it cuts
winners — "keep" is the share of the cohort's 211 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 30h 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.