The maths is straightforward:
Trade 1: $10k → $20k
Trade 2: $20k → $40k
Trade 3: $40k → $80k
Trade 4: $80k → $160k
Trade 5: $160k → $320k
Trade 6: $320k → $640k
Trade 7: $640k → $1m+
You do not need a 20x. You do not need to discover the next billion-dollar meme at $200k market cap. You do not even need elite-level trenching skills.
You need a handful of disciplined 2x trades.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: if it were that easy, everyone would do it.
Of course it isn’t easy. The difficult part is not the maths. The difficult part is remaining disciplined enough to wait for exactly the setups you want, size correctly and actually sell when the trade works.
I’ve run this strategy twice in my degen wallet. Here’s broadly how I approach it.
Trades 1–2: $10k → $40k
At this stage, I’m looking almost exclusively at beaten-down memes in the $2m–$5m market-cap range.
My criteria are simple:
Down roughly 80–90% from ATH
Community is still extremely active
Liquidity is sufficient
The original narrative has not completely died
The token has already demonstrated that it can trade materially higher
The maths here is what makes the setup interesting.
A token that has fallen 80% needs to 5x just to reclaim its previous ATH.
I don’t need the ATH.
I only need approximately 2–3x, with some allowance for slippage and imperfect execution.
I’m effectively betting on partial mean reversion, not price discovery.
Trade 3: $40k → $80k
This is where position sizing starts to matter.
You generally cannot throw $40k into a $2m microcap without becoming part of the liquidity problem yourself, so I move slightly higher up the curve.
My preferred range here becomes roughly $7m–$13m market cap.
Same rules:
Beaten down.
Active community.
Proven historical interest.
Enough liquidity to enter and exit cleanly.
The objective is usually to buy around those levels and exit somewhere in the $20m–$30m range.
Trade 4: $80k → $160k
Now you have $80k.
Congratulations.
At this point, I start looking for memes that I believe genuinely have $100m+ potential, ideally buying them around the $25m–$40m region.
But there is one rule I rarely compromise on:
I prefer coins that have already been there before.
I am not trying to join a community and collectively discover an all-time high for the first time.
I would rather buy something that has already traded at $100m, collapsed to $30m, retained an active community and now only needs to retrace part of the move.
There is a huge difference between betting on recovery and betting on discovery.
Trades 5–6: $160k → $640k
Once the portfolio gets here, the game changes again.
You should not be trying to ape six figures into random $4m memes.
This is where I move into what I call blue-chip memes: established coins with deep liquidity, strong communities, widespread recognition and previous valuations significantly above where I’m buying.
I’m still looking for the same basic condition:
Down 80%+ from the highs, but very much alive.
During a strong bull market, a 2–3x move in these names is not particularly extraordinary.
The biggest risk here is psychological.
Once people turn $10k into $160k or $320k, they suddenly convince themselves they are geniuses and start abandoning the system that got them there.
Don’t.
Wait.
Taking no trade is also a trade.
If the setup is not there, keep your money.
Trade 7: $640k → $1m+
The final trade is where I become considerably more conservative.
At this size, I am no longer interested in playing liquidity games with memes.
I would rather move into highly liquid, established assets where a 50–100% move is plausible over the right cycle.
Think:
SOL. ETH. ZEC.
Or even a high-conviction blue-chip equity.
At this point, the objective is no longer to prove how good you are at finding memes.
The objective is to finish the job without blowing yourself up.
That is the entire philosophy.
Start small.
Move up the liquidity curve as your capital grows.
Buy severe retracements, not euphoric breakouts.
Prioritize communities that survived the drawdown.
Take the 2x.
Move on.
The mathematics is easy.
