I just wanted to elaborate on this with one more thing.
I think one of the most important things for a trench group is that people are clear about something being a size play/conviction play because if you don’t, then the odds of people holding are low.
Every active trench group known to man can share their top 10 scan recap with 10 tokens that went 5000x, but the odds that anyone bought and held are extremely low unless the person sharing made their thoughts clear.
Examples
If I remember correctly, @aut0m8d shared moodeng with my group at 70k and some people did well, but nobody held for the mega run. However, when he came into the group with $pnut at $4m, he came in yelling, “THIS IS THE NEXT HARAMBE,” and we all cooked on it.
Another example is @ushy786 with zerebro. This man would not stop talking about Zerebro and only Zerebro in the chat from around $180k. It ended up being a life changer for a bunch of people in our group. One guy (not sure if he wants to be tagged) even bought 4% of the supply 😅 and we probably had at least 10% collectively early on..
I saw the same thing with @CookerFlips and $aster. He was very clear when he posted in pastel that this was a size/conviction play, and I’m sure that gave others the confidence to size in and hold as well.
You need the big wins in memecoins; that’s how you really make it unless you’re a copy farmer 🤷♂️
I’m telling you, nothing like a group of motivated broke mfs tryna make it. Then you sprinkle a couple people who made it as motivation, people that they look at as inspiration and to give guidance. This is the perfect concoction for the ideal trench/alpha group imo.
After I made it to a point where I could pretty much live my life comfortable without working forever I 10000% did not hustle as hard as I did before when I was trying to escape the rat race. And I don’t care who you are, you’re going to experience some degree of complacency once you go from “I don’t know how I’m going to pay my next electric bill” to “hmm do I want to go spend the next 6 months on vacation in a foreign country.”
The alpha group I made mid 2024 was a prime example of this. It was just me and a bunch of 3 to low 5 fig ports in the trenches every single day. No fancy tools, no secret sauce, just a bunch of degens in a tg group with a rick bot and we outperformed any other free or paid group at the time. 7 to 9 people left that chat with 7 to 8 figs and probably 20+ made it to 6 figs.
Before creating the group I was insanely anxious about starting it because I wasn’t sure how we would do with a ragtag group of idiots. I didn’t want to start this group then have it fail miserably and lots of people lose money. To my complete surprise it ended up being exactly the opposite. The success that came from that group was so far beyond what I thought possible, it almost didn’t feel real. And you wouldn’t have recognized the name of even 1 single person in there at the time outside of maybe me.
So yea, hard work > everything.

Another example of this for me was $goat which was my real make it play. When I first found goat I was convicted and aped bigger than I ever would ape at the time because the volume was nuts. Then a couple hours later volume slowed to nothing (<5k on the 5 min) and I was down like 75% and very unhappy lol.. Luckily I passed out with my phone in hand instead of cutting my losses because I woke up with my bag up like 10x and immediately began selling due to the trauma the night before. Then when I checked in one of my twitter groups all the guys in there were also super bullish and it gave me my conviction back so I aped even more than I sold.
Ended up riding a 100 or so solana initial to $3.5m in a couple weeks and I can 100% guarantee you I would have sold far too early had it not been for the guys in that twitter chat @Debussy100 @dogoshii @Stacco__ @Bushitrades @financenewsguy @wheresrare and a few others
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