I Made $300K Trading Meme Coins
44sHigh earning claim hooks viewers, and the attention-based trading strategy is counterintuitive and intriguing.
▶ Play Clip"Delivers on the core promise of showing a meme coin strategy, but padded with self-promotion and a long guest segment."
The video explains how to trade meme coins by focusing on attention as the primary driver of price. The creator shares a step-by-step approach using social trading platforms, following successful traders, and identifying narratives and catalysts to find coins before they go viral.
The creator states that trading meme coins comes down to understanding attention. The more attention a coin gets, the higher its price goes. He claims to have made over $300,000 in the last two years using this principle.
FOMO is currently the 5th free app in the app store, above apps like Kaoshi, Chase, and Chime. Coinbase is 29th, Phantom 51st, OKX 127th, and Exodus 192nd. This signals growing retail interest and a hot market.
The creator recommends going to the all-time leaderboard and following everyone there. The goal is not to copy trade, but to use the information to make your own decisions. Seeing trades helps you understand what's happening in the market.
A trader named QWERTY made over $800,000 on a coin called NewLight, entering at a $3 million market cap and selling at $38 million. The coin was based on a viral Chinese AI-generated movie that was so bad it went viral.
The creator highlights a trader named Rowdy who turned $113 into over $370,000. He emphasizes that while such gains are possible, they are not easy. A 10x on $100 is $1,000, a 100x is $10,000, and a 1000x is $100,000.
The creator shows how he researched a coin called Jalapeno. The thesis was that OpenAI released a new AI chip called 'Jalapeno' that outperformed NVIDIA's GB300 in power efficiency. He bought the coin based on this narrative.
During slow times with low volume, traders often do research and look for narratives. The creator suggests checking the 'Graduated' tokens list to see what's hot and to look for memes that are starting to go viral.
The creator emphasizes the importance of having a group of friends to trade with. He mentions his free Discord (discord.gg/maincoins) as a place to discuss coins and get different opinions. He also notes that timing is crucial.
Following traders on X (Twitter) is crucial because it's the main platform for crypto and meme coin information. Building your timeline to be full of crypto content helps you find alpha and stay ahead of trends.
The creator does live research on the Jalapeno coin. He checks the news (OpenAI posted 27 minutes ago), looks at the number of holders, and considers whether the narrative will go more viral. He also asks about potential catalysts.
Catalysts are events that bring more attention to a coin. Examples include a tweet from a project founder, a listing on a major exchange, or a celebrity endorsement. The creator is up $50,000 on a trade due to multiple catalysts.
Brian, a 'normal' meme coin trader, explains his thought process. He saw a viral TikTok about 'Lapis' (based on Speed and Typhoon Eye), did his own research, and bought the coin. When Kai Cenat dressed up as the character, the coin went to a $1 million market cap, and Brian made $400.
The creator notes that people are making obscene amounts of money on coins with silly names like 'Bullshit Coin'. A trader turned $13K into $75K on that coin. He emphasizes that you can get a piece of the pie too.
Brian suggests that beginners should focus on memes they see early on TikTok and Reels, as these are likely to be deployed on-chain. This helps build an edge before learning more advanced concepts.
The creator warns against letting FOMO get the best of you. He ends the video with a $500 loss on Jalapeno because he copy traded a buyer who was down $3,000. He reminds viewers that a trade isn't over until it's realized.
The video concludes that successful meme coin trading is about understanding attention, following the right people, and managing risk. The creator emphasizes that while the game can be 'stupid' and unpredictable, with the right approach, anyone can participate and potentially profit.
Attention is the key
This is the foundational principle of the entire trading strategy presented in the video.
NewLight trade example
A concrete example of how a viral narrative can drive a coin's price from $3M to $75M market cap.
03:09Jalapeno research process
Shows the practical steps of researching a coin based on a news narrative.
05:19Catalysts are crucial
Explains how catalysts can raise a coin's ceiling and change its momentum.
11:55Beginner strategy
Provides a simple, actionable starting point for new traders.
18:41[00:00] I've made over $300 for the meme coins in the last two years and it looks complicated but it's really not. Trading meme coins comes down to one thing, understanding attention. Today I'm going to show you how to structure meme coins and how I draw a type of coin can get more attention,
[00:12] ultimately making the price go up, which leaves me making pianos like this. There's a chart I made $40,000 on literally last week. If you're watching this video, it's because you've seen the meme coin hype. I mean, FOMO right now is the number 5th free app.
[00:24] It's above apps like Kaoshi, Chase, Chime. like and the point of me saying that is that whenever like crypto apps start hitting the top rankings in the app store like that's when things get really hot like last cycle we had coinbase be the number one app on the app store and like if you scroll through the top apps right
[00:40] now coinbase is 29th um phantom is 51st okx 127 exodus 192 and my point of saying this is to show you like crypto apps are like heating up you know like mobile trading and just like trenching in
[00:52] general has gotten a lot more attention recently. I think it's like a little bit of like the start of like the Anson token obviously gripping, you know, Bitcoin hitting 80k, Solana hitting 100. There's been a lot of bullish catalysts that are ultimately driving like the attention towards
[01:05] crypto markets in a really hot way. Obviously, there's a few things you have to understand. Most importantly, it's down when you're trading up. You can get on FOMO once you sign in. You just might have to put up an orange and you get 10% off your fees. And boom, the mobile app and what we're trading on, on my computer, you know, everything that we do is like
[01:20] the same so all the people that we follow you know i've been making namecoin videos now for like over two years and you can really go back on this channel two years ago and see that like the salon attracting videos i was doing back then required you like go on chain and like do all
[01:33] this deep research and while like doing this still does help you know it's become much easier now that everyone's like on social free and platforms together so honestly what i would recommend doing like as soon as like you have a profile is like go over to like the leaderboard and i want you
[01:46] follow these fairs, like, go to the all-time leaderboard, and, like, just start following everyone here, you know? And the point of doing this is not to, like, ever copy trade, right? Like, you're not gonna get good by copying other people. A lot of people like to say this,
[01:59] but I actually just think it's, like, the complete opposite. You know, like, when you're trading meme coins, and you're following other people, and seeing the trades they're taking, because this is, like, now what's become, like, really high is, like, these social trading markets. When you're
[02:11] seeing this happen, like, what you're supposed to do is, like, use this information to actually help you make a decision on the trade you want to take next. And so like once you've gotten the reward and you follow like all these people and you're starting to get alerts and you know, and you're starting to get alerts and your feed is full now, you know, you're
[02:27] going to start seeing trades people are actively taking, okay? That's like step one, okay? Now I need to explain to you what it is people are actually trading, okay? So for example, Ferb right here just sold BTS down to finance, okay? First of all, this is a point on the
[02:43] Robinhood blockchain. Primarily meme coins have been traded on Solana, which is something you might be familiar with. But nowadays people are trading meme coins and just like in general crypto coins across different chains. You don't really need to understand too much of that at
[02:55] the beginning. You just have to understand meme coins are attention markets. The more attention something gets, the higher the price of that thing is going to go. I'm going to bring up an example here of this trade called NewLight. Okay, this particular trade, QWERTY made over $800,000 on.
[03:09] He entered at $3 million market, and it's sitting at $38 million. Okay, this coin went all the way up to $75 million. And New Life, like this Chinese cat movie, or this Chinese cow movie, that was like really like sloppy AI.
[03:23] And, you know, it was like so mean to podcasters. Like, oh, this movie is like such bad production that it actually ended up going like super, super viral. And, you know, everyone who was aware that, everyone who decided to bet on this becoming more viral than it already was at the moment,
[03:38] they thought and they're making a lot of money like you can see all these people down here who were dropping theses on these coins like rowdy like fm pump guy we need to highlight this guy okay because he's turned 113 dollars into over 370 thousand dollars on ui i'm not here to sell
[03:53] you on this crazy dream that you're gonna do the exact same thing too i'm just here to tell you that like you can actually follow people who are doing this and this is weird i mean this is like one thousand fucking trade like turning a hundred bucks into a hundred thousand dollars is it's just
[04:07] not super fucking easy to do obviously right like a 10x on 100 is already difficult that brings you to a thousand a hundred x is 10,000 a thousand x would be a hundred thousand and i'm not gonna say here a lot even probably that's an easy thing to do but like i mean rowdy is a really well-known
[04:21] trader who like you could have followed into this trade too he bought this horn at 300k with 3.4k instead and he turned that into 500k i think there's something more realistic obviously as Like, Rowdy's a trader who's done this many, many times.
[04:34] Like, you look at his P&Ls, he's, you know, $150,000, $50K, $14K, $7K, $60K, and, like, $10,000 and so forth. And obviously, like, Fumble, like, Aurelia, still being your top one, too. These guys have already been trading on-chain for many, many years. Like, Rowdy has been a really good trader for a super long time.
[04:47] And having access to seeing what all these traders are doing now is, like, something we haven't really had as open pre-op before. And I think that people are incentivized to like climb the leaderboard and like really make a name for themselves because like obviously obviously having a social presence has always been a huge advantage And now we trading this heading like anybody has the ability to do so
[05:04] So again, very basically, a buyer right here just bought jalapeno corn and he's betting that jalapeno will eventually get more attention, creating more potential buyers that ultimately will drive this price up. And so if we want to look at this trade particularly, I saw that he bought it.
[05:19] I'm going to go do some research. Okay, the top thesis is that this guy said he might lose on this trade, but this is why he bought the coin, okay? He linked this to a news source saying, OpenAI's Jalapeno chip outplaces NVIDIA in tests.
[05:33] OpenAI said its new Jalapeno AI chip beat NVIDIA's GB300 in power efficiency. So, with this narrative, we can assume that OpenAI, aka Chakabit, you know, multi-trillion dollar AI company,
[05:45] has a new chip, a new AI chip called Jalapeno. So that's like, you know, it's funny. And like the meme is like a jalapeno chip as the image. And it's like an AI chip narrative.
[05:57] You know, it's like an LF buyer just lost a thesis on this. There's no other platform to trade jalapeno with open AI pairing. Send the chip with haste. Okay. And so, for example, because of the narrative on this coin and the thesis that buyer brought and just reading up on this in general, like at the moment right now, again, when you're watching this video, this might not even like pertain anymore.
[06:17] It might not be the case. but like as of right now this that's like the decision i'm taking into like following him into this crate because i can see the narrative you see i didn't like blindly copy someone it's more so like okay i understand what the narrative of the coin is and so i don't think
[06:35] it's that bad and like it could be funny and also like it's really important to check how the market is currently doing and you can do this by going to tokens going to graduate and here you can kind of see like most of the tokens that like are currently doing hot like on your alerts and on
[06:48] your feed you'll be able to see like okay is there anything like super crazy going on right now like did Elon Musk tweet something really funny is there like a really funny meme going super viral right now that like most of the attention is not and when we have these times that we call like
[07:00] dead times like slow times times of like low volume and these happen very very often right the question becomes like when we have these times a lot of traders decide to go do research on coins and they try to like just like run up narratives.
[07:13] Like the one we just bought, right? Jalapeno, for example. And look, I'm not even bullshitting you guys. Like most of my training that I'm doing nowadays is actually on mobile. Like I'm going to go ahead and show you my screen time here because obviously, you know, I've been a trend trainer for like two, three years. But I want to show you guys like, you know,
[07:25] this is where trading is like headed into, you know? In the last week, you can see my screen time right here. Like I was on phone for five fucking hours. Like I'm not kidding. Like I'm generally going on my phone and like checking this nonstop.
[07:37] The things I'm working most for is going on the homepage, clicking on tokens, going over to graduated, I have Solana set as a filter on the top left. Okay, and I'm looking through all the meme coins here and you see those little bubbles right there, like this one right here, this token called Fuck Cancer, my friend Remus of Mars,
[07:52] he's not my friend, he's somebody that I follow. That's what's so much to say is your friend. So the more people you follow, the more confidence you'll have when you scroll this list and like see the graduated tokens. And again, same thing on the computer, like you can go over to tokens,
[08:04] go to graduated and scroll through the same thing. Like the filtering my network is only available on mobile right now. I don't know why. And you can kind of just, like, scroll this at any time and see what memes people are talking about. You know, like, maybe you saw a meme on TikTok
[08:17] that you thought was funny. Like, maybe you saw two for a triple T. You look it up. You look up the meme. You scroll through the holders. Look through the feed. You look through the DCs that people are putting. And maybe that's your case.
[08:29] Or maybe Trump said something funny that you think will go really viral. Or, you know, just moments like this, you're looking to capitalize on moments, on little moments of things that can go more viral
[08:41] than what they currently are. Now, how do you find these coins before everybody else? Because social trading is so big, it's become very clear. You need people to trade with. You need friends. If you don't have a group of friends, get one together, put your boys on,
[08:54] start trading main coins with other people. That is really, really important. If you don't have anybody to trade with, I trade this Discord. It's completely free. It's called discord.gg main coins. There's boys channels. There's free chats. And then we're also going to do like a VIP session for like people who are interested in using AI to help them trade meme coins.
[09:10] But that's completely separate. Like my key thing here is like in order for you to find these coins before anyone else, because there also could be the case like, yeah, you think a meme is funny, but it just might not be the right time for it to go.
[09:22] And so, you know, talking to other people and getting different opinions on all these different tokens is only going to help you with your trading. Another super key important part about trading meme coins is obviously like, you know, the social presence some people have, right?
[09:35] So when you follow these traders, you also want to follow them on X. So for example, like Chrissy, she just turned, like, let's see, $100,000 into $450,000 off of Basecap, right? So if I see Chrissy and I follow him on FOMO Real Estate I also going to want to go and go to X and follow him here as well Because X is like it still currently like the life of crypto Twitter like everything related to meme coins and crypto like you get this information out of X
[10:00] like X is just what every meme coin trader uses so it's like really really important to like start following people on X and building your own presence on X too so almost integrated plans where like now people have like you know little plans like we had back in the day on fucking
[10:14] black ops and so I really suggest like going here looking at all the plans following all the people like Patrick for example he's the founder of Condition Capital going to his ex following his ex going to the the clan's ex and following all the numbers here
[10:26] and the reason you're doing that is to start building your timeline on ex to be full of meme coins full of like crypto when you go on ex like your goal should be to find the most alpha possible you know
[10:38] see like the community's forming and like when you follow TikTok and Instagram over there you should be looking for like what memes are like starting to go viral here that like people are doing that I think I can get early to and like have other people also think the same thing.
[10:50] But whenever you buy something, you need to ask yourself, why is this relevant right now? For example, like 10 minutes ago, I bought jalapenos while recording this video and I'm now at $230. And I'm going to do some live research on this point, right?
[11:02] So jalapeno AI chip. 27 minutes ago, OpenAI posted this. So it's still like relatively new news. Jalapenos OpenAI's first custom unveiled on June 24th, 2026. So I guess it's actually from June 24th,
[11:16] but I guess opening, I just said that it's just how the pain of the shit beat in video. It's like relatively new news, so this news is relevant right now. Is this coin reaching new communities?
[11:28] You know, this isn't really one of those type of coins. What I can look for here is, like, is the number of holders going up? You know what I'm saying? Like, are people dropping more pieces? You know, the pieces this guy just dropped, is that this shit outperforms in video. So will this narrative end up going more viral throughout today, throughout the week?
[11:43] You know, like, you've got to make a decision, too. like on all these main coin that you're trying to hold, like, you know, what's the amount of time I'm really looking to hold for? And all that stuff is basically a super key pivotal role. You also have to ask yourself, like, are there any catalysts
[11:55] that can bring more attention to this coin, right? And catalysts are like key moments in your coin, right? Like, for example, I'm in this particular trade right now, and I'm up $50,000 on it, but, you know,
[12:07] there's been like a ton of catalysts within this coin, right? Like the person who made this coin, the debt, you know, even if you're deciding to buy something that's for me, but this isn't really a meme coin, it's more like a crypto project coin. But particularly whenever this guy has tweeted something,
[12:21] it's been a catalyst moment, it's been an important moment. Yesterday he tweeted something, $17 to go 5.30pm yesterday, and that was a very crucial catalyst moment for this coin. It was a moment that changed the momentum of where the coin was going
[12:34] that only allowed it to have higher ceiling. Cashcap, for example, had a very crazy, crazy catalyst. Cashcap was the first meme coin that got listed on LavaHood, and that was a crazy catalyst for this coin. And this coin had so many different catalysts,
[12:47] like when Robinhood announced the chain, when the chain went live, and so forth and so forth. You know, Brad going on a podcast, talking about new coins and the cool things that were doing on the Robinhood chain. And all these things are catalysts that have only helped this coin raise its ceiling.
[13:00] You know, as you can see here, it's been kind of stuck at the 230 range. It was like on the last night, it really broke ATH by like literally, or just kind of like tied along with it. But these are things that are, you know, these are catalysts in the coin. And every coin that you're in,
[13:12] you need to ask yourself, what are potential catalysts? For example, in CyberLeaks, it is the DTA coin. I don't know if you guys saw it, but some hackers and leakers of DTA got some official meme coin, and every time that they're dropping leaks,
[13:25] those are catalysts towards the coin. For example, Maze, he's up $340,000 on this coin right now. He's been up $500,000 at that peak. He's only taken out his initials. And he's obviously really into this trade.
[13:37] He thinks more catalysts are coming for his trade. and yeah overall I think my trading strategy has changed a lot like I think I'm holding things a lot longer I think I'm looking for uh you know like these bigger plays like obviously I invested what how much I invested just like 46,000 dollars into coolatron and recently I've been having some
[13:52] lots of too you know like I had here some pnl I'm going to show you like this week I lost 5k because I was copy trading someone in a discord and yeah it's just like silly of me to be doing honestly I just like got really dumb um pal I also copy trader with a lot of my big law who
[14:08] recently have been like chasing like a pen chip like i started getting so small like starting to see everyone buying the same thing i know like this is a mistake that you're gonna make too because like you have to live and learn to be honest like look at some pump guy they actually made 100 bucks into uh the couple hundred k on the alley just
[14:22] bought this coin right here so like you know i'm getting a little formal they don't want to look into it but i want to keep recording this video like talking about what i'm talking about um but you know i had i had that trade around so i'm okay i had another trade i also another 11k and i was up like 30k
[14:34] So I just rocked it because I couldn't reread that. I lost 12k on this cat and I paid this terribly low because when I sold it actually ended up going even way higher. But before that I obviously had a trade I made on AI I had a trade I made on AI as well had a trade I made on unicorn on this other coin and like some other trades i taking i learning you know like i studying all my moves and i like looking at you know why certain trades of mine were successful why
[15:01] certain trades of mine were failures i'm also studying all these other traders because of like the leaderboard function because you can now see everybody on chain i'm going to bring up another example of an attention-based meme okay and um i have a special guest here who's actually more
[15:14] like a normal meme coin trader and I want him to explain his thought process and maybe it can help you guys as well. This is my friend Brian and we're currently looking at his solo profile and he just did his biggest trade yesterday. He made $400 on Lapis which was a narrative based on Speed
[15:29] and Typhoon Eye and I'm actually going to let him explain it because he's a normal meme coin trader so please. Alright so just like everybody else watches TikTok at my usuals, Typhoon Eye and Speed had like a very viral moment when going through his minecraft hardcore marathon and i didn't
[15:46] really see it on tiktok i'm gonna be honest because i'm not really like on tiktok 24 7 i usually use reels however though i did see like one reel about like lapis lapis and i then went to kai stream one day after he finished uh after he finished his marathon and i saw it after he
[16:02] worked with lapis lapis i'm like okay this is something big but i didn't know there was a point on it and i saw a razzle on it this is me being like as authentic as possible and i thought he bought i'm like oh shit he bought this coin so i clicked on the coin and i go on the x and i just
[16:16] see this i'm like okay this is cool but like there's no the attempt is so then i started doing more research and then i saw the tiktok and i'm like this is where like the meme originated oh my god it's my godness
[16:29] that's la peace what the f is that what is this a drink that's la peace what the f la peace so i saw that tiktok and then i searched up on tiktok la peace and i just saw a bunch of videos of just like
[16:41] people clicking up la peace la peace la peace la peace and like just like redesigning kai's character so then i instantly just like killed raznor because i'm like okay this is a good coin i can see this going viral however like
[16:53] is it gonna be like a 10 million dollar million mark he got corn no but I'm like this this has the potential to go to 1 million so I bought it like around 200k yeah that day I was just like looking at different coins and I started like dipping again and I'm like all right I'm gonna BCA one more time because I feel like this is a
[17:08] really good coin it just needs the attention it just needs to grab the attention from Kai and that's exactly what happened Kai went on stream he dressed up as a piece so that was a catalyst moment for this coin Kai Sinat dressed up as this guy right here on a stream and that
[17:22] was like the catalyst and you started going to lapis and when when titan did that this coin ended up ripping it went to a million dollars in my cap and so what brian is saying is that he tailed rasmus into this coin but i mean you've been following rasmus for a long time you're not
[17:35] his copy train everything he does no so what was it you you saw him buy a piece here he bought 250k markup and then you went and did your own research on what was exactly and so when that catalyst moment happened brian ended up making 400 on this coin his biggest trade rasmus also
[17:50] ended up signing on this trade. He made $8,000 on fucking crafts. I mean, do you understand how stupid this game is? People are ridiculously way dumber than what you are and making an obscene amount of money doing so, right? I'm not even
[18:02] kidding. Like, on this trade particularly, bro, this coin's literally called Bullshit Coin. This coin launched on, like, the Anthem pad, but, like, this guy right here, he turned $13K into $75K on Bullshit Coin. Like, dude, there's just
[18:14] so many, like, moments of people that are hitting nutty-ass trades like this. Like, look at this right here dude a hundred bucks into 17 000 that's way more realistic than the guys hit 100 to 300 ppm new lot instead like dude like these trades are like really dumb man and like you can definitely
[18:28] get a piece of the pie too all right so just being a normal trader and just like really like you're lagging home for what it is like i think the best way to utilize it when you're first starting out is like been on the memes that you're really early on when you're exploring tiktok and reels because
[18:41] those memes have most likely been deployed on king so i feel like if you play like that you will will most likely be able to build your edge when it comes to trading coins and from there you can start learning about like other coins and like understanding like who's in trading like how the
[18:56] liquidity moves and suspect the other like advanced things that want to trade and look this trading platform can give you all the tools for your edge and your ability to make money will only come from understanding attention and managing your own risk okay you have to be careful you cannot let your
[19:11] FOMO get the best of you like you know you actually just have to like think wisely whenever you're participating in trading and use that to the best of your ability and I am ending this video on a $500 loss on jalapeno token because as you can see right there
[19:25] I just paid that terribly and I bought that because I copy traded a buyer who is currently down $3,000 on this coin so you see it's not always super easy but while recording this video I'm now up to $56,000 on Kuatron and again a trade isn't
[19:40] over until it's over nothing is realized until it's realized just remember that whenever you're following people. Make it more orangey. And I'm out. I hope to see you in the trenches. Peace.
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