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Reading the chart

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Charts look like a professional instrument. They are mostly one simple thing: price, drawn left to right over time.

nowpricetime →up = people buyingdown = people selling
The curve is just price over time. The dot is right now.

The curve

The line is the price. It goes up when more people are buying than selling, down when the reverse. The dot on the right is right now, everything left of it already happened.

Timeframes

1m means each step is one minute. On a fresh memecoin that is the interesting view. 1H or 1D zooms out and shows the shape of the whole thing. Zooming out is usually more sobering, which is why it’s worth doing.

MCap vs Price

Our charts default to market cap, because it’s the number that means something across different coins. Switching to Price shows the per-coin number instead the same shape, different labels.

What a chart cannot tell you

It cannot tell you whether the team holds most of the supply, whether the liquidity can be pulled, or whether the volume is real people. Chart shape is the last thing to check, not the first.

Green candles are not a reason
“It’s going up” is the single most expensive reason to buy something. By the time a move is obvious on a 1m chart, the people who caused it are deciding when to sell to you.