Sizing
The question is not "how much could this make" but "how much can I lose without it changing my week". A common rule among people who last: no single memecoin gets more than 1 to 2 percent of the total portfolio, and the memecoin bucket as a whole gets a fixed budget that is refilled only from profits, never from savings. Boring, and the reason they are still here.
The house money rule
When a coin doubles, sell half. Your initial stake is back in your wallet, and what remains cost you nothing. That position can now go to zero and you have lost nothing; it can go 10x and you still get the ride. This one habit removes most of the emotion from the rest of the trade, because the worst case became "break even" the moment you took the initial out.
Laddered exits
- 2x: sell 50 percent. Initial recovered.
- 5x: sell another 25 percent. Now you are in profit no matter what.
- 10x and beyond: sell in small pieces on every big green candle. Nobody sells the top; everybody who sells on the way up survives.
- Keep a moon bag: 5 to 10 percent that you mentally write off. If it prints, great. If not, it never mattered.
Cutting losers
A stop loss on a memecoin is often just a guaranteed fill for bots. A better rule is a reason-based exit: the thesis was "attention is growing"; if volume dies for six hours, the thesis is dead, sell. The thesis was "dev is building"; if the dev wallet sells, sell. Waiting for a bounce to "get back to even" is how small losses become total ones.