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title: 'How to Find Meme Coins Early (How I Found Pepe, Doge, Shib, Floki)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=c5gtEdmrdQ8'
video_id: 'c5gtEdmrdQ8'
date: 2026-07-18
duration_sec: 452
channel: 'Alex Domain Trading'
---

# How to Find Meme Coins Early (How I Found Pepe, Doge, Shib, Floki)

> Source: [How to Find Meme Coins Early (How I Found Pepe, Doge, Shib, Floki)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c5gtEdmrdQ8)

## Summary

This video presents a step-by-step strategy for finding meme coins early, using a specific exchange as a filter to avoid rug pulls and maximize gains. The creator shares proof of recent discoveries like Pepe and Turbo, which achieved 15x returns shortly after listing.

### Key Points

- **Goal: Find Meme Coins Early, Avoid Rugs** [00:01] — The aim is to discover meme coins just before they take off, while avoiding projects where the owner runs away with investors' money. The biggest gains are found on-chain, but most projects rug.
- **Proof of Success: Pepe and Turbo** [00:14] — Using the strategy, Pepe was found on April 19 and did a 15x; Turbo was found five days ago and also did a 15x. This shows how to avoid 99% of rugs and find early meme coins.
- **Basic Strategy: Use Exchanges as Filters** [00:46] — Instead of searching on-chain, use exchanges that list meme coins to do 95% of the research. The exchange Maxi (macx) has listed meme coins that have done at least 5x, most 15x since the meme coin bull run started.
- **Exchange Filter: Maxi (macx)** [02:06] — Maxi lists new projects and acts as a quality filter. Pepe-related memes listed there have done at least 5x within two weeks. The strategy is to buy early and sell quickly.
- **How to Use the Exchange** [03:01] — Sign up on Maxi, go to the Perpetual or Spot tab, filter for meme coins, and see recent listings. Buying recent Pepe-related meme coins would have yielded 5-10x per project.
- **Core Saying: Get In and Get Out Fast** [03:41] — The key is to get in, get your bag, and get out as fast as possible to lock in profits.
- **Advanced Strategy: Shorting the Downturn** [03:54] — After buying and riding the pump, short the meme coin when momentum dies. This can turn a 10x into a 100x. Requires tracking the project on Telegram/Discord to know when the team loses interest.
- **Tracking Projects for Shorting** [05:01] — Join the project's Telegram or Discord to monitor community sentiment and team responses. When panic sets in and team responses are bad, it's time to short.
- **One Successful Short Can Change Everything** [06:23] — Turning a 10x into a 100x only needs to be done once to turn $1,000 into $100k or $5,000 into $500k. The strategy has a high rate of success.
- **Stick to the Strategy, Avoid FOMO** [06:48] — Having a strategy prevents FOMO for other projects and helps avoid 99% of trouble and rug pulls. The hardest thing in crypto is not losing money.

### Conclusion

The video provides a dual strategy: use a curated exchange to find early meme coins and ride the pump, then optionally short the downturn for amplified returns. Sticking to the strategy and avoiding emotional decisions is key to success.

## Transcript

find meme coins exactly here just before they're about to take off but we don't want to find the meme coin right here and have the owner run away with all our money it's not easy because the biggest gains are found on Shane and in this
video I will tell you exactly step by step how to stop gambling set up a system and a strategy for how to find meme coins early and here is proof of our latest discoveries using this exact tactic we found Pepe right here on the
19th of April and shortly after it did a 15x we found turbo five days ago right here will Jack on the 21st and it did a 15x now our spree might not last forever but this goes to show how you can avoid 99 of all rugs and find meme coins early
now there is an advanced version of the strategy that I will go through at the end of the video but first I want to cover the basics so that we know what pretty basic we have meme coins they list on Shane the projects do about
bunch of marketing and 95 percent of them rug and take the money of the investors and they just get out of there we want to avoid this but we don't want to be too late to the party if we head over to binance if we head over to
kucoin on any of those platforms and we look for new projects it's gonna be too late maybe you can find a 2X or a 3X or you will completely miss out you cannot select any project out there to do this they still have to have something and
I'm gonna talk about in the end of the video is going to take this from a 10x strategy to a 100x strategy but first let's cover the basics and that is that we gotta find exchanges that actually list meme coins and we let the exchanges
list meme coins and we let the exchanges do like 95 of the research for us it's kind of a filter we use the exchanges as a filter and one that I've been using lately to find these exact meme coins that have performed really really well
actually pretty much all that have been listed on here since the meme coin Bull Run started have done at least a 5x and most of them had done a 15x so the exchange that I use in order to find these meme coins early have them filter
out most of the bad ones so I can easily buy into them and write it up it is called Maxi or macx and there will of course be a link down below but basically what they do is they list new projects now I still believe that we
gotta do our own research I still believe we gotta look at the entire Market if Pepe is pumping we most likely want to do a pepper related meme like also been the ones that have performed the best you can do completely unrelated
memes as well but it's a higher risk and of course there will be some time where there will be a meme coin that will be listed that won't do a 15x or a 5x but so far all pepper related memes that have been listed on here has done at
least a 5x and really really fast within two weeks of being listed because it's kind of like a proof of quality for the meme coin if it gets accepted on the exchange the next step for the meme coin is just to find find other exchanges
where you can get listed on and when they get listed on their kucoin binance other big exchanges then they're about to blow up so all you really do is just head over to the exchange you sign up and in the Perpetual tab or the spot
exchange you can actually filter out with meme coins and you will see a list of all the recent meme coins and you'll be able to see exactly what I told you in the beginning of this video if you would have bought any of the recent
pepper related meme coins they would have blown up 5 to 10x per project you come a time where there's a new meme coin Bull Run that is not paper related it's gonna be something new maybe some other dog or cat or whatever and then
you will be able to use this exact strategy so the saying that I always go by is get in and get out as fast as possible get in get your bag and just get out but now let's talk about that advanced version of the strategy so this
kind of combines into some of my recent videos and what you need to do is you gotta find the pro projects then you go in you buy them you hold them all the way up and then when you feel that the momentum is dying or when it's about to
reverse oh well when you take profits because there will come a time where you will need to take profits and if you're not prepared you might just hold the meme coin all the way down so if you're not used to making money you got to make
you get out when it's time to take profits it's all right if you take profits at the 5x and it does a 10x because a 5x is still amazing returns so don't be afraid to lose out you don't have to nail the top but what you can do
is meme coins 99 of the time they go straight up and then they go straight down really really far not all the way to the beginning because some people still believe in them for like forever but there will come a time where they
kind of go down and stabilize over time and that downturn you can actually short and double triple or even 10x your money once again so basically the advanced strategy here is not only that you buy the meme coin and write it up and then
short it and write it back down but you actually gotta keep track of the projects themselves so you need to find a project you're in the telegram Discord whatever and you need to look at the incentive of the project because you
don't know exactly when the project will do another marketing turn so let's say you write it up and it dips and you try to short it but then they throw in like half a mil of advertising money and it just pumps up and you get liquidated or
you know like stop loss doubt so you got to make sure that you actually track and follow the project so you know when they kind of die out and they lose interest would say it's actually better to follow them on telegram or Discord because then
chat you will see people talk about the project and when a project is about to die people will panic but then if the responses are kinda bad from the team then most likely the project will just
down but if you try to short the project and I have something in big planned and communities because they always advertise it really really well because they want to keep people in the project and keep buying them so if you go in and
watch the projects watch the Discord watch the telegram you will be able to short it all the way down again and you can turn that 10x into 100x and you only can turn that 10x into 100x and you only have to do that successfully once to
have to do that successfully once to take a thousand bucks into 100K or 5 000 take a thousand bucks into 100K or 5 000 into 500k so you really only have to nail this step once and that is why this strategy is so great because the rate of
success is really really high and even if you decide to not do the advanced version you can just do the simplified version and just look at the exchange really really basic and don't hold your profit hold your bag all the way down
back again now I'm not gonna ramble on for too long this strategy is pretty basic but you need to stick to the strategy don't get emotional and I would having a strategy like this that you follow is that you will not have fomo
for all of those other projects that get listed on Shane and similar you will just avoid 99 of the trouble and 99 of the rug pulls because believe it or not one of the hardest things here in crypto is actually not losing your money make
making more videos and strategies like this here in the future I hope you all make massive gains here in the upcoming Bull Run and in the upcoming Bull Run of much for watching and I'll see you guys next time