Maximizing Returns: The Best Time to Trade Tokens After an Airdrop
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Maximizing Returns: The Best Time to Trade Tokens After an Airdrop
Knowing the best time to sell an airdrop token is crucial to maximizing your returns.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by: hoeem
Compiled by: TechFlow
Are you considering trading your tokens after an airdrop? Knowing the best time to sell airdropped tokens is crucial to maximizing your returns. In this article, crypto KOL hoeem reviews the price performance of five tokens—OP, CANTO, APT, BLUR, and ARB—during the first 24 hours, 14 days, and 30 days following their airdrop distribution, aiming to identify optimal entry and exit timing.
1: First 24 Hours – The Best Time to Sell
The first thing you should do upon receiving an airdrop is... sell.
If you're able to claim early, you have the opportunity to sell at a higher price and potentially buy back in later at a lower price. These tokens all follow a similar 24-hour rule—the initial hours offer the best selling opportunity.
2: First 14 Days – Practice Patience
OP: Gave you a chance to buy back in at $0.51.
CANTO: Offered a re-entry point at $0.19, followed by further selling pressure.
APTOS: Provided an opportunity to buy at $7, shortly before the broader crypto market collapsed.
BLUR: Offered a $0.60 buying opportunity, soon followed by USDC depegging and a wider crypto sell-off.
ARB: Presented a chance to buy at $1.11.
Patience—the greatest of all virtues. Sometimes it pays to wait.
3: First 30 Days – The Ideal Entry Window
Rushing to buy these tokens immediately after the airdrop makes little sense. During the first 30 days, each token attempts to establish its market value. However, market data shows that prices during this initial 30-day window often reach or come very close to their lowest levels:
OP: $0.40 (low at $0.40);
CANTO: $0.11 (low at $0.07);
APTOS: $3.61 (low at $3.10);
BLUR: $0.45 (low at $0.45);
ARB: $1.11 (low at $1.11).
These tokens share one common trait absent in most other established tokens at this stage of their lifecycle: the "new coin premium." Buying new rather than old has become a prevailing market habit.
Let’s examine how strong this pattern really is by looking at price movements from their Day-30 levels:
OP: $0.40 ➡️ $3.22, up 705%;
CANTO: $0.11 ➡️ $0.76, up 590%;
APTOS: $3.61 ➡️ $19.92, up 451%;
BLUR: $0.45 ➡️ $0.82, up 82%;
ARB: $1.11 ➡️ $1.79, up 61%.
Summary
1. Sell your tokens within the first 24 hours;
2. Stay patient and avoid FOMO during the first 14 days;
3. The first 30 days have proven to be an excellent window for re-entering positions in these airdropped tokens.
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