01 · Reading the Board

The board is a shortlist, not a recommendation.

What's left for you to judge is whether a coin is alive — and that is almost entirely a volume question.

Volume is the column that matters

Start with 5m Vol and let it decide whether you look at anything else.

The colour is doing the work for you:

Colour	5m volume	What it means
Green	$100K+	Best. Something is genuinely happening.
Amber	$25K – $100K	The middle. Read the next section before acting.
Grey	Under $25K	Too quiet to trade. Skip it.

Inside the amber band there's a split worth learning:

$50K+ — good. Enough flow that a dip actually gets bought back.
$30K – $50K — careful. Thin enough that your own entry moves the price, and thin enough that a dip can just keep going.

Always read volume against market cap

$60K of volume means completely different things on a $200K coin and a $40M coin.

On a $200K coin, $60K in five minutes is a third of the entire coin turning over. That's a real event.
On a $40M coin, the same $60K is background noise — that coin is asleep.

So the useful question isn't "is the volume big" — it's "is the volume big relative to what this coin is worth."

The Vol / MC column does that comparison for you. It's the 5m volume as a percentage of market cap, so 100% means the entire coin turned over in five minutes.

Vol / MC	What it means
50%+	Genuinely busy. Half the coin or more changed hands in five minutes.
15% – 50%	Active. Worth a look at the chart.
Under 15%	Quiet for its size, whatever the raw number says.

The board filters out anything under 10% by default. Below roughly a tenth of market cap turning over in five minutes there isn't enough flow for a dip to get bought back — which is the whole setup the bot is waiting for. You can change that in the filter bar.

Sort by this column when the raw volume numbers are close. A $50K print on a $90K coin and a $50K print on a $400K coin look identical in the volume column and are completely different events.

What the volume column will not tell you

A coin under about 15 minutes old can put up huge volume on its first pump and then dump the moment that buying stops. The volume was the pump. It wasn't demand arriving, it was demand leaving.