Tracking by wallet, amassing a million-dollar fortune with $50 at the age of 18.
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Tracking by wallet, amassing a million-dollar fortune with $50 at the age of 18.
I rely not on the luck of any single trade, but on repeatedly capturing replicable market patterns.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by: Ugo
Compiled by: Luffy, Foresight News
In February 2024, I stepped into the world of Meme coin trading with $80 and lost it all. I had two such disastrous experiences.
It was at that point I realized I hadn't grasped the fundamentals of this market at all and had been using the wrong approach.
Later, I re-entered the market with $50. This time, I employed a wallet tracking strategy. In less than a year, by February 2025, that $50 had snowballed into over $1 million.
Early Pitfalls
My logic for buying Meme coins used to be simple: "This coin has a funny meme, good promotional content, a clean website... buy it."
Admittedly, this method occasionally made some money, but most of the time, it was no different from pure gambling. You had no solid basis or objective reason to judge how high the price could go.
If you want stable profits, you need to find a way to get key information *before* a move starts, not chase the trend after it's already risen.
I used to be obsessed with scouring X (formerly Twitter) and Telegram for all sorts of rumors: "This coin will definitely hit a $100M market cap this week, just wait and see." I later learned that most of the people posting these things were either paid shills or had already accumulated 15% of the token supply at low prices. You rush in excitedly, only to end up as the exit liquidity.
If your profit-taking targets aren't based on real information, your actions are merely reacting to others' interests, not truly following market dynamics.
Turning the Tide with Wallet Tracking
I quickly realized a crucial piece was missing from my previous approach. I'd watch top traders' moves and wonder, "How can he predict the market, but I can't?" So I had to find a solution.
Wallet tracking completely changed my perception of trading. I stopped trying to guess market tops and bottoms, stopped chasing every narrative, and stopped being led by hype on X. Instead, I focused on one thing: where is the smart money flowing?
The origin of any major market move isn't on social media; it's in a small number of wallets. These wallets belong to project teams (initial distribution wallets), large holders, or early institutional investors. Insiders, KOLs, industry big shots, market makers, newly created anonymous wallets... they're all hidden in these addresses.
My success wasn't based on luck from a single trade, but on repeatedly capturing replicable market patterns.
At that moment, it all clicked: I don't need to be smarter than the entire market, I don't need to inject any subjective judgment, and I don't need to pay attention to market hype. I just need to watch the data, analyze fund flows, and decisively execute my trading strategy.
From then on, my goal became crystal clear: build a trading system that reacts solely to the movements of smart money, not to every rumor.
My Practical Wallet Tracking Methods
Tracking KOL Wallets
When I started in February 2024, the wallet tracking method was actually very simple. Back then, almost no one frequently changed wallet addresses.
All you had to do was find the hidden wallet addresses of KOLs with real influence and follow their moves. That's it.
They accumulate at low prices → loudly promote the coin → price instantly pumps 10x.
Using this method, I turned $50 into $5,000 in the first month. Immediately in the second month, $5,000 became $30,000.
For example, on February 24th: a project team launched a token specifically for a KOL. This industry heavyweight quietly built a position using multiple hidden wallets when the token's market cap was only $20,000. I followed his lead and bought in when the market cap reached $30,000. He then aggressively promoted it in Telegram and on X, and the token's market cap instantly broke $400,000. I took partial profits at this level.
Later that day, the market cap surged again to $1 million, and I cashed out another portion. In just a few hours, my initial capital multiplied roughly 30 times.
Back then, my capital was very small, so I didn't have to worry about liquidity issues and could exit cleanly.
Tracking Cabal Wallets
A few months later, I stopped focusing on individual KOLs and started tracking the movements of cabal (small manipulation groups) wallets. By then, people were changing wallet addresses more frequently. Tracking the consensus formed by a group's actions was much more reliable than watching a single wallet. For instance, 10 different people's wallets, all part of the same circle, executing the same moves simultaneously.
The confidence this signal gave me was far greater than any single wallet could.
The operation around the $ROCKY token on July 8, 2024, is a perfect case study. At that time, people like Erik Steavens, POE, DOGEN, and CTM were quietly buying within the $10,000 to $80,000 market cap range.
Seeing this signal, I knew it wasn't a coincidence; they were definitely planning a pump.
I bought 2.8% of the token's circulating supply when the market cap was $40,000.
In the following days, this group of big players coordinated to pump the price, driving the market cap all the way up to $45 million.
I took profits in batches between $2 million and $10 million market cap, exiting at an average level around $6 million.
This trade multiplied my entry capital by 150x. While holding to the peak could have yielded 1100x, I strictly followed my exit plan. Making my first six-figure profit from this trade was satisfying enough.
Tracking New Wallets, Project Wallets & Large Holder Wallets
By January 2025, the crypto trading atmosphere was unprecedentedly hot, but wallet tracking was also becoming more difficult. To continuously obtain insider information, I had to constantly optimize my methods and adapt.
The key to tracking these insider wallets is finding their *new* wallets that have just withdrawn funds from centralized exchanges like Binance. This means precisely tracing fund transfers and timestamps across multiple Binance addresses. The process is time-consuming but absolutely worth it.
For example, I was closely tracking Marcell's wallet movements, so I saw his newly funded wallets every day. On January 31st, he personally launched and took a large position in the $BARRON token.
I built my position across 3 wallets within the $15,000 to $25,000 market cap range. About three minutes later, Marcell started posting to promote and pump the price. I quickly took profits and exited between $1 million and $2.5 million market cap.
This was one of the fastest trades I've executed: an initial investment of $1,300 turned into over $110,000. (The trading platform BullX shows my buy amount as $24,000 because I later added to the position on dips within this wallet, maximizing the profit).
Tracking Market Maker Wallets
Market maker wallets are wallet addresses directly controlled by the token project team, primarily used to manipulate the token price for the benefit of the team or the token itself.
Common manipulation tactics include: triggering stop-loss orders by placing large buy/sell orders to harvest retail traders, or dumping the price 30% within minutes to cause panic selling, allowing new investors to enter at low prices.
However, market makers often transfer tokens between wallets shortly after a token launch. If these wallets aren't newly created or are easily identifiable, we can directly track the project team's movements and precisely capture every new token launch opportunity.
This is exactly how I executed the $HOOD token trade on January 31, 2025.
This project team launches roughly one new token per month. They completed their large position allocation when the market cap was pumped to around $2 million. I bought in decisively at this level, getting in before the top KOLs started promoting it. A few hours later, I took profits between $80 million and $120 million market cap, achieving roughly a 50x return on this trade.
Simultaneously, during gaps in managing my initial position's profit-taking, I also used the market maker's large sell-offs to re-enter heavily, making 40% to 70% gains in just a few minutes.
My total profit for that day was a staggering $152,000. Until the ASTER token trade in September of the same year, January 31st remained my most profitable trading day.
My Trading Rules
I always strictly adhere to money management rules. For example, the capital allocated to any single trade never exceeds 5% of my total portfolio. I also flexibly adjust my risk exposure based on the quality of the trading opportunity and my confidence level.
When trading with a wallet tracking strategy, you absolutely cannot go all-in. Once the targets you're tracking discover your presence, they can easily turn around and harvest you.
You also need to learn to think from the perspective of those you're tracking. Understand their interests, operational habits, and timing. This minimizes the risk of being harvested and enables consistent, stable profits.
Of course, I strictly follow my own trading plans and never let emotions dictate decisions. I actually rarely struggle with this because I started learning forex trading at 14; discipline is ingrained.
That said, I've experienced several painful lessons of giving back profits. But these setbacks didn't break me; they became fuel for my progress. Driven by that不甘心 (reluctance to accept defeat), I studied even harder, constantly refining my trading edge.
Finally
I'm writing this article not to boast. On one hand, I want it to serve as a diary to look back on my growth in 5 years. On the other hand, I hope to inspire and help more people, making them understand: as long as you're willing to actively seek change and put in the effort, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
I must clarify one point: I never use these tracking techniques against friends or people close to me. Everything I do is purely to understand the underlying logic of market operation and then go with the flow.
I am also very grateful to those I track and to the project teams who genuinely work hard. I always trade with reverence, without any hostility. I am also sincerely thankful for all the friends I've met on this journey who have helped me so much. Thank you all, and thank heavens for the favor.
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