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title: 'If I Started from Zero with Memecoins in 2026, This Is What I''d Do'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=OFKw6XXm8i8'
video_id: 'OFKw6XXm8i8'
date: 2026-07-17
duration_sec: 1158
channel: 'Bez Trades'
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# If I Started from Zero with Memecoins in 2026, This Is What I'd Do

> Source: [If I Started from Zero with Memecoins in 2026, This Is What I'd Do](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OFKw6XXm8i8)

## Summary

In this video, Bez, an experienced crypto meme coin trader, outlines a step-by-step strategy for turning one Solana into over 100,000 Solana by 2026. He covers setting up the Axiom trading terminal, filtering out scams, understanding narratives (memes, news, tech), and developing a personal trading edge with proper risk management.

### Key Points

- **Starting from Zero with One Solana** [00:02] — Bez explains that the video will show how to run up from one Solana, setting up Axiom, picking a trading style, and actually executing the plan.
- **Cleaning Up New Pairs** [01:11] — To avoid scams and rugs, Bez recommends turning off everything except bags, pump, and bonk protocols in the new pairs category, as pump tokens are easiest for beginners.
- **Applying Filters to New Pairs** [02:19] — Bez sets a minimum volume of $1,000 and a minimum market cap of 5,200 Solana to filter out tokens with no buys. He also uses an age limit of 30-60 minutes to avoid stale tokens.
- **Middle Tab for Deep Diving** [03:38] — The middle tab is for single token analysis. Bez applies filters: minimum 10,000 market cap and 1 Sol global fees paid to eliminate bundles and scams.
- **Simplifying Display Indicators** [04:05] — Bez turns off unnecessary indicators like volume, transactions, insiders, sniping, top holders, dev, and dex paid to reduce clutter and eye strain.
- **Setting Buy and Sell Fees** [05:33] — For buys, Bez recommends 100% slippage, MEV mode on reduced, priority fee less than 1% of buy size, and bribe higher than priority. For sells, similar settings but MEV mode off.
- **Narratives: Memes, News, and Tech** [07:09] — Bez explains that a good coin is based on narrative: memes (viral trends on TikTok/Instagram), news (e.g., Trump shooting), or tech (projects with strong teams and partnerships).
- **Attention Equals Money** [10:34] — Bez emphasizes that the key to profit is pricing in how much attention a narrative will get. Examples include Trump coin reaching 70 billion market cap.
- **Finding Your Trading Edge** [15:07] — Bez stresses that traders must find their own edge—whether in memes, news, or tech—and understand why others will buy after them.
- **Risk Management Strategy** [16:03] — Bez recommends splitting portfolio: 20% for learning (5-10% buys), 60% main bag (5-10% buys with scaling), and 20% backup vault untouched for at least 2 weeks.
- **Wallet Tracking for Edge** [18:15] — Building a wallet tracking list (e.g., 1,650 wallets) provides a significant edge by identifying good/bad wallets and finding confluence.

### Conclusion

The key to success in meme coin trading is finding your personal edge, exercising strict risk management to avoid going to zero, and continuously learning from losses. With discipline and a long-term perspective, significant wealth can be generated.

## Transcript

I had to restart in 2026 with just one Salana, I'd easily make over 100,000 in common question that I get asked almost every single day on my YouTube, my really answered it in a YouTube video format. So, in this video, I'll be doing
exactly that and showing how I would run up from one Salana, setting up my Axiom, picking a trading style and actually running it up. Now, if you don't already know who I am, my name is Bez. I've been in crypto meme coins for over a year now
dollars and I've taught hundreds of people along the way with verified P&Ls timeline and I stream almost every day on Twitch. So, I think I am the right running it up from zero. Now you understand why I'm actually valid for
speaking on this topic. I'm going to show you my actual way of how I'd start Obviously, my preferred trading bot. You can use whatever you like. I do prefer want to get a little bit uh discount off
fees. They are by far the most popular and by far push the most features out. can see there's a lot of rubbish tokens, a lot of scams and coins. You're just going to get straight rug pulled on, which is what happens to everyone when
very, very easy ways to clean up this. Get a lot of these unneeded indicators out of the way when you start so you can have a more smooth experience into the doing is going over to the new pairs category. I'd be turning off everything
apart from bags, pump, and bonk. So this is what my thing would look like, my protocols. You can also turn off bags. Some people prefer to have it on, some people prefer to have it off. This is what I would say for most beginners is
probably turn it off. The most easy tokens to trade obviously pump. And then you apply that filter, you can already see how many rugs are out the way. But that's not it. You can see there's a lot too much indicators. And you also have
categories. So you should go on to the middle tab and then do that once again. watching all that. So I fast forward sped right through it. But you can see right now we mainly have pump tokens. We have a couple bonk tokens on here. But
it's mainly pump tokens which is very very good to start cuz obviously you liquidity pulled and straight rug pulled on pump. Obviously people can sell but they can't actually do anything with the dev liquidity. The next thing I would be
actually putting a filter on. Most people don't use filters on the new pairs, but I personally do use a very small filter because I don't want to see tokens that don't get any buys at all. So, what I would do is go on to metrics
and then put volume minimum $1,000 in volume. And then market cap, I would put a minimum of, you know, 5.2,000. You can turn it a little bit up if you're brand brand new, maybe to 7 or 8,000, but I usually use 5.2,000. So, anything with a
large dev buy or big snipers on it, I can instantly see, but I don't want to people talking to each other on the new pairs or anything I don't really need to tab and then add some filters to this. So, I'd start out with 10,000 market cap
and minimum.5 global fees paid. The global fees paid basically gets rid of all bundles and scams as they usually put their fees lower so they don't waste money trying to get faster transactions when they only the ones in the coin. I
personally also have an age limit on here for like how old the token can be. tokens cuz usually if it doesn't go in the first 10, 20, 30, 40 minutes, it usually means the token is not very good. And you should also just see that
uh token on your wallet tracker if it is very good. So I usually just put a 60 minute or a 30 minute filter on and then you can see how many littleer tokens are where you're going to be looking at almost every token. As migrated,
They're at a high market cap and new pairs, there's just so many coins, you can't look at them all. So, the middle tab is exactly where you'd be spending single token and deep diving what they are. I would then go into the migrator
filters on metrics. I'd put minimum 10,000 market cap and one soul global fees paid. If you don't want to do all this manually, you can also click this automatically do it if you are signed up to Axiom, which is a very, very good
beginner feature. The final thing I'll do before I start learning what type of tokens to buy is actually going on to display and turning some off some of these indicators. Honestly, you do not need this many indicators. Especially
know, bundle holding and all these things. You can also turn your quick buy a little bit bigger, but that's not very necessary when you're starting out. I but I would be turning off some of these indicators as it will just get rid of
the slop and like all the eye strain you get from, you know, sitting in this terminal you've never sat in before. So, I'll scroll down here. I would turn off volume if you want. Usually, I turn off volume. I'd also turn off transactions.
You can already see how much cleaner it looks. I'll then turn off insiders and sniping, the top holders, the dev, and the decks paid. So, this is what your Axiom should be looking like right now. Everything here is actually important to
see. Active Axiom users is how many people is actively looking at the chart. Obviously, the holders, the people on Axiom or other trading bots, and then the links on the coin, etc., etc. But you'll start to understand this slowly
and slowly as I go on to this video. This is just things you should be copying word for word for now. So now you've basically got all the basic things done on your pulse to get rid of all the coins and the scams and
the rugs and everything like that. You need to actually understand trading coin good. That what makes a coin good is the most crucial thing that people keep on learning during trading and is the only thing that will make you money
filters. The next part of your settings you have to set up is the actual fees on how much you want to pay per buy and sell. You can up these fees and you can when you're starting out with a slow portfolio, I'll show you the best
keep them low and you can have multiple presets, but I would usually recommend, you know, 100% buy slippage just so you can always get filled. And then I'd put MEV mode on reduced. And then depending on your buyin size, I'd put between
0.001 O1 priority like uh three zeros depending on your buyin size. I would make sure to keep this less than 1% of your buyin. Definitely at a very very minimum. So if you're buying one soul, don't put more than 0.01%. And then on
bit more. As you have me protect on, you want to put the bribe higher than the priority. So say this one has three O's. You might want to put this one as two settings I would use for the cell. And then the next thing I'd be doing is
putting the cell ones on. And I would put basically the same thing except I also turn me mode off as you don't need bribe um for cells as there's no mev protection on cells that you do need unless you're using big size and you're
selling big clips as it's very very unlikely you're going to get me on would use. You can play around with the other ones and put higher or lower settings depending on what you're trying to trade, but I usually try stick to the
one preset with around the same settings for my size balance. So, if you have a higher balance, obviously up these fees. If you have a lower balance, obviously settings. The question you all have been asking, how do we find a good coin? And
what is a good coin or what makes a coin good? It's all based on the narrative. The narrative is basically what the coin is based on. This can be, you know, tech news, trends, virality, something funny in the media, something Elon tweeted
about, a company's dog, a company's cat, just something that people can catch on to be talking about is obviously trends. Trends is like one of the most easy things to do, especially if you're a Gen Z or you're younger in meme coins. You
Instagram, anything like that. This is a recent one, the niche baby meme. As you can see, it's on Instagram here. There's tons and tons and tons of posts. As a result, coin went up to over 2 million in market cap and people made a large
amount of money. As you can see, this one guy alone turned $1,000 into over $185,000 just from catching this meme very early and hitting 18x on his money, nothing more to memes really. You just have to find viral stuff early. If you
early, memes early, you're young, you're Gen Z, you're on your phone a lot. It's very, very easy to catch trends. And that's just one type of narrative there is. But they do die out quicker. They're easy to frontr run as crypto Twitter is
Tok. you know, crypto Twitter is usually a little bit older or they're less they're obviously focused on trading. So, if you have an edge on Tik Tok, else. You can likely catch it before them. So, it gives you a very, very big
edge and a very, very big potential to make money just like this. So, you want to be catching memes early. That is one type of narrative. The next one is news. ago. This was about a year ago, but it's the best example I can bring. And I
when Donald Trump got shot in the head or in the neck and there was a bunch of most viral thing in the media if the president or the United States of America got shot. Like no matter regardless if he died, he stayed alive,
it doesn't matter. It's going to be so so so viral. So if you're buying news going to be viral. As you can see, a coin went up to over 24 million as a result of that coin. And they're very, very easy to catch and find due to news
agencies trackers, um, CT trackers, website trackers. There's just tons and tracking these news accounts, whether that be, you know, the BBC news, uh, any news account at all. You can catch these things very, very early cuz every news
earliest onto this. So, as soon as you see news drop and you think it's going to blow up and it's going to become very viral, you know, either memeable or it's just going to be very viral in general, you can hop onto the memecoin of that
just like the Trump coin did and you can make a ton of money on this coin alone that went to 22 million. I reckon people made between $1 to $300,000 on this coin alone just from catching this coin very very early from things like CT trackers
on J7 or Axiom. One thing about news coins is they're fueled by news, large accounts, mainstream media, which means natural interactions lead to higher prices. The thing is with trends, they have to get more views where news coins
they can just get more posts. Say Elon Musk interacts or things like that, they very quickly. As you can see, there's some very, very big wicks on this chart. There's tons and tons of big big big wicks. As people interact with the coin,
the news coming and how big the narrative is growing. If you can frontr run this narrative growth and you can price in the narrative very, very high on how big of a thing it is for Trump to be shot, for example, you can make tons
and tons of money. As you can see here, this is one example. 60 million views from Elon Musk tweet about Trump being shot is absolutely nutty. And if you you in that this is going to get tons and tons of views as he had a different
standpoint on everyone else about the whole thing and that it was a, you know, wasn't. Another coin that was related to Trump uh was his official coin which had was the largest meme coin we've ever had on Salana or just meme coins in general.
And as you can see, this was his coin. And it was at 2.5 billion when I took billion market cap, which is absolutely insane. People made hundreds of millions on that coin. People made multi multi8 figures, seven figures. I know people
this coin alone. If you were early to this coin, you could have made tons and Trump tweeted out official memecoin. Meme coins aren't a small thing. 116 still climbing. And this was just on one
how big Donald Trump was, you could have made tons and tons of money. As I said Attention equals money. Whether that be on a Tik Tok meme, that be on a news the coin. You have just have to price in how much attention is going to be on
that coin or that narrative or that thing. As you can see, this chart went over up to over 70 billion market cap in a matter of days, making many many people millionaires overnight. The last thing I want to show is techcoins.
Techcoins is very good if you're like a programmer or or you understand code or you're a little bit more developed in the space. I think it's very very hard to jump into techcoins when you start if you have no background in it or anything
like that. But if you have some sort of edge there, you can definitely make tons the biggest edges. You know, not everybody can understand techcoins like they can everyone can understand how many views a memecoin is getting. like
the memes um how much views they're getting, how many comments, how many likes. It's very very, you know, objective opinion on these coins where thing from one people and something else from some someone else. This is one of
January, this was Artcoin, it went to over 700 million market cap, which is absolutely insane. And the way I would have gone about originally looking at narrative is a few things. I would have looked at the CA's posted. It's
basically how many coins I've created. I'll use either Alphagate or I would use of Alphagate. You can make sure the CA is in the bio. Obviously, very, very basic things. And then key followers, mutual followers, and how many followers
can see these key followers once again the screen right now. It's a free extension. Very, very good. Not paid to extension quite a lot. And you also want to see other green flags that would make
I've got a very bad drawing here, but this would be one of the examples to make sure the guy's not like a scammer or a rugger. He's not trying to hide his face. He's showing his face on the project. He's explaining the tech on a
green flag cuz he knows this tech's not going to go to zero overnight and people him down or get angry at him and know what he looks like. Cuz obviously, if you're in crypto, you want to hide your face if you're doing the wrong thing. So
showing either their Twitter account, their following list or anything like also check the website for things like GitHubs. The thing about techcoins is they are they've got higher potential, but they are reliant on teams. So if you
don't know much about what is a good team or what are good partnerships on a understand this. So if you know venture capitalist funds or you're really good at analyzing GitHubs or things like that, you will be able to understand
coin, A6Z, went to over two billion market cap. This was a web 2 coin, meaning a lot of people outside of crypto came in to buy this specific coin and a lot of venture capitalists were in this coin just because of how big it was
the space and how big of a thing they thought it was going to be. There was If you look at how many partners there were, it was definitely ve very, very bullish. They had Ethereum Foundation themselves, Magic Eden, you know, all
So, they're not going to, you know, disappear overnight. You also have to supporting them cuz anyone could put something on their website. But it's tweeting about them. They've put actual money into the company. But it is very
too much about tech coins as when you start you're probably not going to be hardest thing to trade in my opinion. Now you've probably heard me rambling on however long you've been watching this video now. But I still haven't answered
your question. What should I do with my one Salana to turn it into the hundreds explaining different trading styles and what a narrative is and setting up basic your trading style. That's the number one thing you need to find in the
coins, whether you're younger and you want to do memes itself on Tik Tok, Instagram, hunting for the next new viral thing, or you want to be trading news coins, you need to find your own edge. An edge is what you're better at
said before, you're likely already naturally better than them at something. Whether that just be scalping, that be long holding, and then different trading buying, you need to figure out your edge. That's the only thing that's going
you don't know what you're buying, you don't know why people are going to buy on top of you and why you understand the coin better than everyone else, then space and you're not going to be profitable in the long term. What I'd
say to most people when they start is exercise very very good risk management. If your portfolio is 10 Salana, this can be for any portfolio, one Salana, 0.1 Salana, this is what I'd do. Triing the trenches 20%, this is two soul. This is
you're trying to figure out what works. You should be doing 5 to 10% buyins of this two salana. So 0.1 to 2. You're going to be getting used to being online a lot. See what works, see what doesn't. Don't be scared to lose. Learning from
in the trenches. And then you want to pr prolong this period to like 2 weeks plus. The quicker this period goes, the less you learn. So obviously try to just watch from the sidelines a little bit more. You're likely going to blow
this fund. So then you go on to your next bit. This is your main bag, 60% of This is going to be six. Obviously you can adjust it to your portfolio. Like I said, this is once again going to be 5 to 10% max buyins, which is.3 to 6ole.
scaling your sizing depending on your conviction. So, if you like a coin a bit more. You're going to be buying in a little bit more than usual. But if you sizing. Sizing is one of the best things where you can actually generate a better
coin a ton, you should be buying tons of the coin, but obviously within reason under your 10% limit, but same goes, if want exposure to it, you should ape a little bit so you don't have to FOMO in
very selective and learn from your losses. As learning from your loss is trenches. The last 20% is just going to be a backup in the vault. It's going to touch this money and you pretend it doesn't exist as it's a very last
two things, you shouldn't be touching the last resort fund for at least 2 weeks minimum. As this is a last resort, you need to analyze what you did wrong. You need to sit back and have a look at what you did wrong. As in crypto, as
you're trading for a long enough time that you don't go to zero, you'll space. There's so much wealth in the putting money into the charts, and
losses, you will become a millionaire in a matter of years. As long as you don't important thing that I can teach anyone when they're starting out. Don't go zero. If you go to absolutely zero, your mental is fried and your whole
perception of memecoins as a whole is fried and you'll likely end up in a 9 to-5 again. Now, the very last thing you should be doing to curate your edge is If you don't know how to track wallets, I'll pop up a video in the top right
understand and start building a wallet tracking list. Wallet tracking is going to provide you a very, very big edge in the trenches. Whether that be finding getting confluence, seeing bad wallets or good wallets, seeing things that turn
different amounts of motion that people copy and buy after, you know, Cupsy, Centered DV, all these people you might know already. You need to start curating a very good list. You can see I have 1,650 wallets, which is, you know, a
I do use this list a ton and it's made me hundreds of thousands of dollars alone. Other than that, that's about it from me for the video. I will go a actually look at different entry prices and different exit prices, what are good
actually how to find these wallets in a future video that I will link up on the sure you show love, like, subscribe, and I'll see you in the next