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    Mooning

    Culture

    Going vertical — a token pumping hard in a short window.

    Definition

    Mooning is the chart going straight up. Could be a listing, a viral tweet, a narrative flip, or pure reflexivity. Percentages stop looking real — 3x, 10x, 50x in a week on a low-cap memecoin is normal during a mania.

    The trap: every moon eventually tops. If you're buying during the moon, you're buying from early entries taking profit. Plan your exit before you need it, scale out into strength, and don't assume a vertical chart keeps going vertical.

    Examples

    • Mooning on the CEX listing — up 400% in a day.

    • Mooned to 50M cap, dumped back to 8M inside a week.

    • Don't buy a chart that's already mooning, wait for the pullback.

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