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How I Spot Crypto Trends/Narratives Early and Hunt for 100X Gemsby@deandree
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How I Spot Crypto Trends/Narratives Early and Hunt for 100X Gems

by deandreeOctober 4th, 2023
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Lately many people have been asking how I'm so often early to the new trends and how I make those stunning charts and what do they mean.
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Lately many people have been asking how I'm so often early to the new trends and how I make those stunning charts and what do they mean.


It's an app I've built that helps me spot trends early and catch pumps and outliers.

(It's not public yet, but if I get enough interest, I might consider making it accessible to all)


Going to give a quick explanation of how it works and how I use it.


Here's how I find 10X and 100X gems


Spaghetti Charts

These are called Spaghetti Charts


They are made by taking the price of an asset and converting it to % change since some starting point (current day / week / month etc).


And doing the same for multiple assets so you can compare them to each other.


Why do this, you ask?

By doing this, you can spot outliers and pumps very easily and catch them early. Also, this gives you an easy way to spot longer timeframe trends or old trends resurrecting etc.


The idea stems from momentum investing with a manual touch, where you pick a Universe of assets and long the best performers.


In TradingView you can do smth similar (w/ Compare), but:

  • it gets clunky when too many assets
  • max number of assets you can add
  • limited data (I'm pulling from CG, DEXes, etc)
  • you have to add/pick data manually (I just auto pull whole categories (e.g. AI, TG bots)


Why I love this approach:

  • Spot trends quick
  • Spot outliers
  • Condensed overviews of the market in a single chart
  • Don't have to open 100s of charts


Here's how I use it:

  • plot only top 100/200/500 whatever by mcap
  • plot all category (e.g. AI, TG Bots, LSD, etc)
  • plot all recently added to CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap
  • plot custom watchlist
  • plot all up 10% today
  • etc


When I've found an outlier or something interesting, I go and check out fundamentals, news and hype. This is where the manual approach comes in.


If I find the dev is cooking something, I might ape.


Let's look at a few recent examples

  1. Here I noticed $PROPHET (@ProphetBots) standing out

$PROPHET Chart

$PROPHET ended up doing 6X at the peak

$PROPHET Performance


2) Noticed $MEF (@frenbotTech) being heavy outlier here


Checked CT - many BIG OG followers, 0 hype, something is cooking behind the scenes 👀

$MEF Spaghetti Chart

$MEF ended up doing 16X since my call and 30X total at the peak

$MEF performance


  1. Noticed $AIMBOT (@AimBot_Coin) here at ~5$, ended up going to 20$+ and nice juicy rev shared

$AIMBOT performance


That's it! Let me know if you'd be interested to try out the app!