Yo, what's good everybody? So, in today's video, I'm going to be showing you exactly how you can make money shorting meme coins. And if you don't know what shorting meme coins are or shorting in general, shorting is betting on the price going down and making money as it goes down. Right? Now, longing would be betting on the price going up and making money on the way up. Right? Now, the reason why I'm saying betting, right, is because you're not trading the actual asset, right? You're you're trading a derivative of it that's basically one one in price, right? So, you're basically trading the same exact thing, right? But you're not actually like buying the token and holding it, right? Like you would normally do because if you were to buy the token and hold it, if the price goes down, then you would be losing money, right? So if you look at like for example, we can go to Axium, right? So Axiom is partnered with Hyperlid. So Hyperlid is an exchange. So if you go to the perpetuals version, right? If you're going to be buying like Salana with per like a perpetual future or perpetual or whatever, right? If you look at it, we can bump this up to 20x leverage. So if we're going to trade normal Salana like if we wanted to buy Salana on Coinbase or Kraken or Jupiter if we wanted to swap our you know USDC for Salana on Jupiter then we're basically trading the spot asset. So spa is like the real asset, right? So in the uh perpetual version, we're basically trading like a derivative of it, right? That's like one one in price or very very very close to one in one on price because if you were to trade normal Salana, you couldn't make money on the way down, right? You can only make money if the price goes up ever because you're trading the spot asset. For example, if you have a if you're holding like like some gold in your hand, you'll never be able to make money if the value of gold goes down. But if you're trading a derivative of gold, which is worth the equivalent of gold basically, then if you can bet on the price going down, right? While other traders could be betting on the price going up. So these are what we like call futures um or perpetuals. And yeah, so if we look at uh for example on Axiom, right, the I'm going to be breaking down meme coins in a little bit uh later. So, I'm just kind of breaking down what like futures are and everything so you guys can kind of understand what I'm saying because some people are new, some people are intermediate, some people are advanced that are watching my videos. So, I want to be able to like clear, you know, be a little bit more broad and break down everything so everybody understands. So, if we're looking at Salana, right, if I wanted to do like let's say 100 or let me see by amount, I could do like 100 USDC, right, of Salana. But I could also do my leverage. I could bump this all the way up to 20x, right? So, if I were to do $100 with 20x leverage, that would be a $2,000 position. So, how does that how does that work, right? How do I get $2,000? Like, it sounds confusing, right? So, basically, what you're doing is you're going to be borrowing the money from either the exchange or you're going to be borrowing from traders that are lending their money. And in return, you're going to be having that capital, right? So when you're using that capital, you're going to be paying a very very tiny funding rate depending on what like exchange you're using. So this uh funding rate, I want to say it's either every hour or every couple hours, right? So every exchange is different. So it's 0.00224. So that's a very very very tiny amount, right? Now, if you have this trade open for a longer period of time, then yes, that's where it can start to eat you like, you know, eat into your profits, I guess, right? if you have this open for like 5 6 7 months, but if you're having this open for a couple days to a couple weeks to maybe a month or two, then you're going to probably be completely fine. Um, just always be checking on the funding rate. And sometimes you can be getting paid and funding, right? Because there needs to be a balance in traders. So, if there's more traders like that are opening up longs, they're going to be paying the people that are um they're going to be having to pay more for their borrowing the money, right? So the the fees or like the money that's being paid for funding is going to go to the shorts. So there needs to always be a balance um or not a balance but there needs to be uh there's always like an unequal side of it, right? So if the price of Salana is pumping lots and lots and lots of longs, so the funding rate for longs is going to be you know higher because the demand for the money that's being borrowed is going to get higher and higher and higher. So the funding rate So I know it sounds a little bit boring. It's a little bit confusing for some of you guys, but I'm trying to break it down in as simple terms as possible. Now, if you're doing a 20x lever long, right? How are you going to get this? Like, so first of all, you have the $2,000, right? But you only started with the $100. So, there comes there's like a caveat to this, right? You're increasing your uh like your reward basically, right? Because if if you have $2,000 in Salana, but and Salana goes up 10%, you're up $200, right? So that goes to the same thing where if um if it goes down 10% you lose $100 and you would get liquidated, right? So you would lose your original $100 that you put into here, right? So you're increasing your risk as well as increasing your um reward, right? So it's like an I could even draw a line on here, right? So instead of if you bought one Salana right here at like 180, it would have to go to it would have to go to to $1 for you to lose like 99%. Right? Now, if you were to open up a 10x leverage, it would be around like I want to say 190 like just around here, depending on how much margin you have left in your account. Let's go here. And then one at like 170. This is just a rough line. Okay, so um so these would be like your liquidation levels. Like say if you're using like 10x leverage or 15x leverage, right? or sorry not liquidation levels your uh well this would be your liquidation level if you're doing a long and this would be probably your liquidation level if you're doing a short if you were to enter right here in the middle. Okay so longs are betting on the price going up right and shorts are betting on the price going down. Now what you can do as well is you can reduce your leverage, right? So traders that have bigger capital or more, you know, just traders that want to take on less risk will do use less leverage. And you can even use 1x leverage where the price would have to go up, you know, like 100% in order for you to get liquidated, which is way way way better than, you know, like say if you use if you're super like DGEN and you do like a,000x leverage, right? Or no, let's just say 100x leverage. the price would have to move up 1% if you're shorting for you to lose all your money or vice versa, right? So, very very very very important to be managing risk because you need to be able to have a strategy and if you're not managing your risk, if you're not able to manage, you know, and have your own strategy, then you're going to get completely slaughtered, right? Um you're going to get sent to the slaughterhouse like most traders and you're going to get wrecked, right? So, I'm trying my best to explain this. Now, with Hyperlquid, I think this is a great exchange. And I love that it's built into Axiom because it gives you you can instantly swap over your Salana or whatever you're trading into USDC and it's going to be on the Arbitum network when you're going to be trading perpetuals. It's uh Arbitum. So, it's basically just another uh it's like Salana but a different kind of network, right? So, you just swap into USDC and you can just bridge it on here already on the app, right? So, it's super super super easy. Now, there's a good amount of options on here. right now the leverage is I think it's either capped at like 20 maybe 40 for some certain pairs like Bitcoin and yeah so we have some meme coins right so we have Turbo we have Render there's the Trump coin on here there's some like AI tech altcoins I guess but really we don't have too many options right we have Dogecoin and the good thing about Hyperlid um like it says in itself there is a lot of liquidity on Hyperlid so you can take on big trades typically with um with uh typically sorry typically with um with a lot of like either dexes or decentralized exchanges, right? Um there's not a ton of liquidity. So if you wanted to swap a million dollars or trade a million dollars, you're you're not going to be able to do that, right? Because the price impact, there's not enough money in that exchange to be able to do that. So people would open up their your your their you know futures positions on like Coinbase or Kraken that has a lot of liquidity, a lot of like actual cash assets to be able to do that. But people don't like to do that, right? Because you have to put your ID then you you know like I guess like I'm not saying like evade your taxes, but like taxes and stuff they're going to be like where did this money come from, right? It's just a lot of work. Okay. So if you're if you want to be able to trade, right? Like for example, Axiom, you don't need to put your ID. You just sign in. You just, you know, put your email and you make a wallet, right? Or just log in with your wallet. Super, super super easy, right? Now, the only downside with Hyperlquid or some of these other exchanges to, you know, short things, right, is the availability of options, right? So, yes, we do have on most of these, they're going to have Bitcoin, they're going to have Ethereum, Salana, XRP, Hyper, like all these different things, right? But what's the trend, right? Well, Salana, it's it's like a it's a good coin. It goes up, right? Same thing with Bitcoin. But what's the trend with most of these meme coins, right? So, let's look at this Decoin. This coin was talked about like crazy for like the past two weeks. And I'm sure you guys have seen it all over your Tik Tok page or, you know, YouTube or Instagram reels and it's just, you know, a bunch of like like, you know, Tik Tok like Tik Tok bros just like mass shilling the coin, right? Well, this was like another mass extraction for normies, right? there. And even some people were asking me, right, and I'm like, there's no way you actually think that that Trump's going to launch this coin, right? The different and they're like, you know, if like if if Trump talked about this coin, it would go like, you know, crazy crazy crazy. So, I think part of the reason why the Trump coin went so crazy is because nobody even suspected it, right? Nobody even knew knew, right? And it it just came out of nowhere, right? Now, with this one, they were like, oh, like it's in his wallet, right? Like all they did was they bought a bunch of supply here and they sent him like I what? like 30% of supply, 20% of supply to his wallet. And yeah, I mean like so it's it doesn't mean it doesn't mean he's part of it. It just means he's an insider, right? And for the price to pay, right? If they send him like 300k or whatever that percent of supply is, realistically the cost of like mass extracting it up here, that's like pennies to them, right? And what they do is they'll go pay these Tik Tockers and everybody $800, $500 to make a couple videos on the coin saying, "Oh, like, you know, this is going to be the next coin, whatever." And they start bundling, bundling, bundling, and then they let all the like Tik Tok normies and, you know, like just normal people get in, right? And then they eventually just get mass extracted, right? And um this is the one thing that sucks is like you know when you have like these mass extractions it gives like the like I I use normies but just people that are like new to crypto like that's just like the word I'm going to use. Um or normies it doesn't matter. Uh they get a bad taste of it right because I mean you know it's it's just they get completely sent to the slaughterhouse right if you bought in at 84 mil this within like this is on the 30 minute chart so 30 within like like a day or two days this went all the way to 18 mil. So you're down, you know, like 60, seven or like 80%, right? You're getting absolutely cooked. And then they started like posting more Tik Toks again. Like cuz you guys got to think like it's not just one guy posting Tik Toks. They get a whole army of people, right? They pay him a bunch of money and then they this is like the most bundled coin ever. We could even look at the bubble maps and see if there's still bundles, which I'm sure there are, but the coin's pretty much at the floor now. So we can look at the magic nodes and yeah, there's still good amount of bundles. And what's really cool about this is we can look at the date. You can customize the uh so I'd have to open the app, but you can customize the date. So you can see how the bundles look on Decoin before like at launch. So you could rewind, you know, time basically, which is super super super cool. And you know, no other platform does it. So also, if you guys want all the platforms, they're going to be linked in the description of this video. And also I'll have them linked in the Discord. Um I have a free trading discord. So feel free to join that. It's going to be linked in the description. So I'll have um links to all the other platforms I'm going to be talking about which are going to be very very very essential if you want to be learning the strategy and you know applying it as well. So what we've noticed is this coin was just a complete rug farm coin. And I mean it's obvious like you could easily tell by the chart, right? Like this chart is the most unnatural fake chart and the people extracted tons and tons and tons of money from it, right? So, these Cabal coins I I really don't like to touch ever because they're just they're eventually going to go to zero. But what I do like to do with them is short them because they're super super super easy. They're super super super free and it's just free money almost, right? Like cuz these coins like even not even just these just and like most like 90% of meme coins go to zero, right? So now let me show you another coin. Let's look at this. uh Gorkcoin. So, if you guys don't remember, Gork was like another Elon uh like people were it was like another AI reply thing on Twitter. Um and it was just, you know, like the controversial version of like Gork or something like that or Grock and um yeah, so it was like replying to a bunch of people and then Elon interacted with it and it went absolutely insane, right? So, it went up to 60 mil. It went all the way down, nuked all the way down to like 15. And then this is where it went absolutely parabolic, right? Because Elon changed his profile picture to um to Gork, right? And then this thing went absolutely insane. Absolutely insane, right? And we could see, like I mentioned in my other videos, like a psychological number, a big big big zone for meme coins is going to be around that 100 mil level. This is where it's going to be like, you know, it's it's just it's very hard for coins to get past this. And if they do get pa past this, there is a way way way bigger ceiling, right? But we could see this coin did struggle because it did it barely lasted any time in this 90 mil zone, right? So this is where you guys also in terms of everything, right? Like when you're trading meme coins just normally you need to look at areas where you know it's probably like when it starts getting these super high candles it does it's the amount of time it's in there is very very very small so you need to be taking profits right you cannot be thinking like this is going to go to a billion right because it's not really like it's all right it's not nothing crazy but the only reason it went so hard was because Elon changed his profile picture now we can see the same thing that happened with the KKS Maximus, right? And he changed his profile picture to this, but guess what? He changed it back to something else, right? He changed it back to his main profile picture or a rocket ship or who knows what he changes his profile picture next, right? But everybody like, you know, Elon or even other people, right, are always changing their profile pictures. Um, you know, not always, but they're going to change it, right? Do you really think that Elon's going to keep Gork for on his Twitter for like forever? No. And do you think this do I me personally do I think this is a past 100 mil coin? Definitely not. It's not. It's first of all it's nothing crazy. It's just like an AI reply coin. Um and second of all the only thing that it's dependent on we could see Elon inter or it was just pumping pumping pumping and then Elon interacted with it so it went super crazy but the that that's the only thing that's holding it up right there's no actually thing that's good about this coin. So, if you can find coins that are kind of dependent on something or they're just, you know, they're just going to be irrelevant in the next like couple days to the next couple weeks. This is where you're finding your shorts and then this is where you're finding your entries, right? You could be, this is what I would have done on this coin. So, everybody knows that he's invented going to change his profile picture whether it's from Gork to something else. He could even switch it back to Kius Maximus, right? And this is something that's going to be destined to happen. Like, think about it, right? If you guys have like a profile picture, let's say um let me think of like a good example. Let's say now that I'm thinking about it, right? Let's say the dollar bill, right? Like say you have a a profile picture of a dollar bill. Like you're eventually going to get bored and switch it to like I don't know like a dog or something, right? Or maybe yourself. So like that's the same thing, right? And with this Gork, like especially it's just it's just like it's all right, right? It's nothing crazy and he's going to switch it to something else when he gets bored because you know and he's also the creator of Twitter, right? You got to think about that or not. So, I'm sorry. He's not the creator of Twitter, but he owns Twitter right now, right? So, you really think he's going to keep this thing up for for a long time? Um it it's it's just you got to like, you know, you kind of have to think like how he's thinking, I guess. So, where is a perfect time to enter shorts? Well, it's good to maybe start entering at close to that 100 mil level, right? Maybe start opening up a short at like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's like let's say 80 mil and oh my goodness I didn't get the line one here at 80 mil you're going to get another short at 85 and then 90 like 90 right here 95 and then if it hits 100 then you can put it 100 right and these are going to be your DCA levels so what you could do is you could put limit orders for this and and they automatically trigger if they hit those prices, right? So, look, let's say, oh, it wicks up here, it wicks here. Maybe it didn't fill your 97 level or your 104 level or 105 level, but you got filled for these ones, right? So, this helps you dollar cost average into your trade, saving you from, you know, getting a bad fill overall, right? Because it would suck to get a short, you know, at the very very very bottom as it's going up. So you can you can you know DCA what the word is dollar cost average and you can see how very little time it's spent up here. Now where where would I put my stop loss? Well on a trade with a memecoin trade I would very rarely do any more than like one to 2x leverage. So with 1x leverage my liquidation price for me to lose all my money on that trade it would have to hit 200 mil right and you can look at this coin right look at how high 200 mil would be right. So very very very very good to use 1x leverage. If I use 2x leverage, my liquidation price would be at around like 150 mil, right? And it gets tighter and tighter and tighter the more leverage I use. So if I have $1,000, well, you know, if the price goes down 50%, I'll be up 50%, right? With 1x leverage. If I have $1,000 with 10x leverage, if I bought in at 100 mil, the price would have to go to 110 mil for me to lose my $1,000. But also, it would need to go down to 90 mil for me to double my $1,000. So, you guys can under start to understand the RNR and the risk versus reward. And once you start get becoming more advanced and better at trading, then you're this is going to be able to, you know, you're going to be able to, I guess, extract or, you know, use leverage more professionally, right? because most people with leverage are like, you know, complete gamblers and they just get completely slaughtered, right? So, use very, very, very low leverage. Uh, especially with meme coins cuz they can move very, very quickly. Right now, another place I guess you could have put this was at 50 mil. Um, you know, if we could see it was like struggling right here. Um, it was starting to be, you know, downtrending. So, you could have opened one at 50 mil as it was struggling. Not right away, but it would, you know, if this was supposed to bounce, it would have probably bounced around here, 50 mil, go back up to 60 to 70, but you could see it was struggling. You could have opened up a short, ride that all the way down, right? So, how are you going to be able to do this, right? Well, like I said, you can't do it on Hyperlid. You obviously can't do it on Coinbase, right? You can't do it on Kraken or Gemini or these big exchanges. Well, there's a there's a couple options that you can do for this, right? So, the first option is going to be Mexi, right? So Mexi is around like we call it a tier 2 exchange, right? So a tier one exchange would be like Coinbase, Kraken, um big exchanges like that, right? And a tier 2 exchange would be like Mexi or Blowin. And let me think of some other ones. Yeah, Mexi Blowofin. These are just some big ones that I can think of off off the top of my head. And the cool thing is with these is the fees are actually really really low um for a lot of things. And there's a lot more options, not just with futures, but with tons and tons and tons of different coins. And a lot of these are no KYC. So you don't really have to ID or put, you know, verify yourself or do all this crazy stuff. All you need is like an email to sign up. And uh yeah, like that's pretty much it. So you're saving yourself a lot of hassle with, you know, how coin everybody knows how Coinbase is. you know, they ask you for a bunch of information. There's like a bunch of fees. Um, with this is super super super easy. Now, if you live in the US like me, you're going to probably need a VPN to log into this because you it's like you can't use a lot of these exchanges that are like tier 2 or tier three exchanges. You can't really use in the US because they only want you to use like their exchanges, I guess, like Coinbase or Kraken or whatever. And I personally like Kraken. Coinbase is uh I have mixed feelings about Coinbase. some but we'll not get into it. So if we look at this right you can trade spot and everything. Now another exchange that I would touch up on or like to touch up on is Quanto. So Quanto used to be Oxfun but they've uh rebranded into Quanto and it looks very very very clean and a lot more professional, right? But it's basically the same exact thing. They do the same exact thing which is amazing. So there's tons and tons and tons of options. So, if you were to want to trade uh futures on Mexi, I'll have a link for Mexi and Quanto in the descript or yeah, in the uh in the Discord, they're free to use. They're free to sign up. And with the links, you're going to be able to get discounts on fees. And I think with Mexi, you can get up to like 6,000 USD in rewards, right? That's up to most likely if you sign up, do that. You mo like like 90% chance you're probably going to get like 10 to 20 bucks in free coupons, right? now like it's now if you get very very lucky like they advertise or whatever right it's like 6,000 um you could get up to right but I wanted to say like most likely you probably get like $20 or $30 in free like bonuses whether it's like free airdrops or free crypto or whatever right so how are you going to use Mexi so first you're going to you know sign up make an account and then you're going to go to deposit right and you're going to do onchain deposit deposit crypto like Salana or USDC right um typically when you're shorting or trading futures you want to be trading tra uh trading a stable asset for the other asset, right? You don't want to be trading Salana for Bitcoin or Salana for Salana because if Salana is moving down and you know your you know your positions moving up, you need something that's stable like for collateral. So it's super easy to swap your Salana into USDT or USDC on here. So you don't really have to worry about like doing it yourself. It's very very easy. You would just go click on spot and then spot and then just type in what you want to swap it for. So, let's say you swapped it for USDT. We're going to go to the futures part right here, and we're going to do USDT uh-m futures, right? You could do USDC if you want as well. And then um my Okay, I thought I was like I didn't know I had a white background over here. Um because it's like that my eyes just got clicked. But, uh anyways, so this is insane. You can use 500x leverage, right? So, if you guys are like super degenerate, then yes, you can go do 500x leverage on and get like auto liquidated, right? But if you do manage to get like, you know, like 1 or 2% up on like Bitcoin or anything like with 500x leverage, you're going to be up a lot, right? But it's very very likely you get liquidated. But what I like about U Mexi is you get lots and lots and lots of leverage. Um, but it's also like there's good liquidity on here and the funding rate is pretty good, right? So you can see there's it's like a plus uh 0.1 for the funding. So you're actually getting paid to um like I guess hold BTC while you're trading it. Um so we can look at some other coins like there's Dogecoin. There's tons of Pangu, tons and tons and tons of different coins. And if you guys wanted to see the new coins that get listed, you would click here. You'd click on new listings and then you could click on new futures listings and see all the new futures listings, right? So you can see meme coins. Now the best exchange, both of these are great. I'm not going to lie, both of these are really, really good. The one that I use the most for memecoins, at least the one that has the most memecoin options, right? Because Mexi probably by far has the most options, but Quanto has probably the most memecoin options, right? You could do Vine, you could do Memecoin, you could do Syrup, Momo, bunch and bunch of bunch of coins, right? And we can go back to Gork, right? I'm going to show you like what the trend is with all these coins. Let's look at um like Grinchcoin. I was showing this earlier. This coin is perfect perfect Christmas coin right now. Let's go. Let me go in bigger time frame like uh 12 hours, right? Like all the way up, all the way down, right? Because it's we're in an attention market, guys. Like u we should all know this like money flows into tons and tons and tons of different things. There's not enough like liquidity to keep every single coin up forever. So, they're always going to come down. And yeah, so if you're able to short these and get good entries, then you're going to be able to make tons and tons and tons of money. You could have shorted Melania. We could even see everybody knows what happened to that coin. Melania, let's go on the one 12-hour chart, right? If you would have shorted this, you would have been up so much money, right? Now, how are we going to be able to short? So, let's for example look at this ski coin, right? So this coin, let's go on the 1 hour chart. So it's maybe came up a little bit. This is just an example. I'm not saying to short Skicoin. Obviously, you know, do your own research. But let's say if I wanted to short this, right? So I'm going to open up a short and let's say I wanted to do it with 2x leverage. Okay, let's see. 2x leverage. One second. Plug my thing in here. All righty. Perfect. So, let's say you wanted to do 2x leverage on this, right? So, you're going to adjust your leverage. You're going to push confirm. And then, it looks like the funding rate is 0.00.4. So, that's like really low, actually. And I mean, you're you would be able to keep this trade open for a decent amount of time without really losing that much money. And this is going to be the order book. And if you click on trades, there's going to be trades here. And we can look at Vine, for example, right? So, here's the order book. You can look at trades. So, here's all the trades here. And if you wanted to do a limit order, right, you could do that or you could do a market order. So what limit orders are, right, if you don't know already, if I let's say I do like a $10,000 limit order, I'm going to be putting my order in the order book, right? And if someone's going to be I'm I'm basically I'm a maker, right? So we're going to use maker and taker. This is what we use in like in uh trading. So I'm going to be a maker. I'm providing the order or the money for the order book. And then when someone wants to go ahead and buy, like say they want to do a market order, so they want to buy right away, right? Because limit order, you're waiting for someone to take your order. A market order, you buy it right away, right? Then they're going to take my order if they do a market order. And yeah, so typically with limit orders, there's less fees. But um yeah, I mean, it just depends, right? Like most people don't really care about like market orders. I'm just saying like if you don't like if you want to be extra stingy on your fees, then just do a limit order and wait for it to get filled. Wait for someone to take your order. If you want to get in right away, then do a market order, right? So, if we're going to do a market order, I do market orders like most of the time. Let's adjust this to 2x leverage. Confirm. So, boom, we got 2x leverage now. And then you can drag this, right, to show how much of your position you want to use the leverage for. And then it will show you what your liquidation price would be. So, this would be the price according to your leverage, right? Um, where you would get liquidated. And then your order value. So, it will show you your your um normal value times your leverage, and it will give you your order value. So, if you have $100 with 2x leverage, it's a $200 position. And then your slippage, I would do I would keep them the same 0.5% to 3%, right? This is allowing like this is basically means your slippage, if you wanted to sell or buy something, you're allowing up to a 3% loss or 0.5% loss. So, half a percent loss um if the price were to change, right? or a not really a loss but a fill like your entry. So if you're the obviously the lower you have your slippage the you know the tighter your entry would be. Um it just depends right because me beam coins can move very fast so you sometimes have to use leverage. I really would not want to add too much leverage. Max maybe 5% but really don't mess with the leverage. Don't do like 50 or 100 or you know something crazy because uh you know you could probably lose a lot in your money. So just keep it how it is. Usually, it's pretty good. This just shows you the margin and everything. So, there's tons and tons and tons of coins. Now, one thing that I like about this is I can see the new listings very, very quickly. So, the latest listings, uh, Memecoin, we got Syrup, Momo, uh, Burer, Kimono, USDU, um, and then we got CLD, Resolve, IMF, Tber, Orca, B, Labu. We could even see what's happening with Labubu coin. See if this is, uh, going anywhere. Make sure to join the Discord. I'll have everything linked in there. And uh yeah, if you haven't dropped a like yet, make sure you drop a like, make sure you drop a subscribe, as well as comment down any videos you'd like me to touch up on, anything that you guys learned or want to learn, right? And yeah, thank you for watching.