Liam didn't stop.
With a 100% win rate, in just one hour, his money had grown to 50,000 dollars—an amount that, if averaged, matched the annual income of an average American. Yet he had earned it all in a single trading session at a café.
If others found out, he would probably be forced to open a class, and no one would accuse him of selling dreams like those crypto influencers.
Of course, with an ability like this, there was no way he would ever open a class.
Even though this "game" was nothing more than watching charts, he didn't feel even the slightest boredom.
It was something that constantly pumped dopamine into his brain.
Liam only stopped because he wanted to pay his tuition first.
His fate had changed, but he didn't want to drop out of college.
Beside the café, there was an ATM.
Liam withdrew three thousand dollars right there.
Thirty crisp hundred-dollar bills—enough to make the eyes of passersby burn with envy.
In this country, everything revolved around money.
People wouldn't hesitate to kneel for money, yet in front of those without it, their arrogance knew no bounds.
Liam walked toward the university.
His aura seemed brighter—something inevitable.
He drew quite a few looks from other students; some were curious, while others wore mocking smiles.
As he passed a group of three beautiful women, one of them, a girl with curly red hair, suddenly spoke.
"Liam, I heard you made a 400-dollar profit on Polycrypto. Did you withdraw it, or did you gamble it all away again?"
Liam stopped in his tracks when he heard that.
Luna Allen.
She lived in the same neighborhood as him, their houses only about thirty meters apart.
They used to be friends as children, but as they grew older, they only spoke when necessary.
Because she was beautiful, she only associated with men who had money.
"Why? You want to know?" Liam replied.
"Liam, we're just curious whether you made a bigger profit," another one said.
It was no secret that trading was no different from gambling.
For ordinary people, making a bigger profit after one win was extremely rare.
More often than not, they lost everything instead.
Their intention was obvious—to mock him so he wouldn't get carried away by a single stroke of luck.
Liam gave a faint smile, then pulled out a stack of dollars from his pocket.
Each bill was 100 dollars.
The three women froze instantly, along with several nearby students.
"Please don't ask how I did it," Liam said before turning and walking away.
He headed toward the lecturers' office.
Mr. John happened to be standing at the doorway.
Liam didn't even need to go inside.
"Mr. John, here's my tuition. Keep the rest."
He handed over 800 dollars before turning and leaving.
Not long after, Jack caught up to him.
"Liam, did you really make more profit?" he asked, disbelief written all over his face.
He even grabbed Liam's arm, as if he wouldn't let him leave without an answer.
"Have you just been winning nonstop? People are saying you spent a lot of money…" he continued, even checking Liam's pocket—only to be even more shocked.
"This…" He froze.
"Calm down…" Liam said, feeling awkward under the attention of so many people.
"How can I calm down? Since when were you this good at trading? Did you just discover this yourself?"
"Yeah, I just found out…" Liam replied.
"But… maybe I'm just lucky. It's not that easy…"
"But you really made a huge profit. Please, teach me."
Liam, "…"
"Later. Not now. Only when I'm sure I'm actually skilled…" Liam finally said.
For the next class, he skipped it.
He walked into a fairly large electronics store that sold laptops and phones.
Liam had always loved technology, but he had never been able to save enough money—not even for an older generation iPhone. He had been stuck using a 2GB RAM Android phone.
Now, he had enough money.
When one of the store employees approached him, he casually asked for the latest iPhone—the highest-tier model with 1TB of storage.
With a premium internet package, he was able to download all the apps he needed within minutes.
Before, he could only use browser versions. Now, he could finally use the actual apps.
Naturally, he returned to the futures market while sitting leisurely in a park.
Tens of thousands of dollars were not enough for him.
Even today, he wanted to reach hundreds of thousands.
Because of that, he was ready to place up to 30,000 dollars in futures.
With that kind of capital, he could only choose large-cap coins.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Solana.
He observed their prices.
Not only did they have high volume, but the exchange also offered high leverage for them—ranging from 100x to 125x.
With 125x leverage, even a 1% price movement meant 125%.
Liam knew it wasn't impossible for these coins to move that much within five minutes, as long as he kept watching.
Minute by minute passed.
After nearly an hour of observation, he finally saw an interesting movement in Ethereum.
(Price Now: 2,001.01 > 2,060.99)
It would rise by 60 dollars in five minutes.
That was at least 3%—more than enough.
Without hesitation, Liam used 30,000 dollars to open a long position on Ethereum with 125x leverage. He executed a market buy while setting a take profit at 2,060.99.
The price immediately started rising, not too fast, but steadily—about 50 cents every second.
It seemed like accumulation from a whale.
By the third minute, the increase became even faster, and he saw his position reach the lowest level among long positions.
2,060.99 / 250,000 dollars (112,000 dollars)
By the third minute, the price had already reached that point, and it would clearly hold until the fifth minute.
Little by little, yet quickly, his long position began to be filled by others.
His funds increased rapidly, and the entire position was closed by the fourth minute.
The price remained there into the fifth minute—and even the sixth.
Liam observed that the price wouldn't change much even in the next five minutes.
The whale had finished accumulating, and there were no more large sell-offs.
His exchange account suddenly turned into a VIP account.
Not only did he gain additional features, but he was even given direct contact with an admin for faster issue resolution.
For an individual, having over 100,000 dollars in capital was enough to be considered a whale.
"Oh… Solana will drop by 1%…"
Liam smiled.
Solana's leverage limit was only 100x.
It didn't matter.
Liam boldly opened a short position with 80,000 dollars.
After he entered, the price rose slightly, reducing the 80,000 dollars to 50,000.
However, liquidation would only happen if the price rose more than 1%.
He was certain that wouldn't happen—and if it did, all his money would be gone.
After that brief rise, the price began to fall rapidly, then gradually.
80,000 dollars became 120,000—and kept increasing.
In the end, it reached 160,000 dollars.
And his total funds had already surpassed 200,000 dollars.
If he were a company, generating this kind of profit in a single day would already place him among major companies with a market capitalization exceeding 1 billion dollars.
"I might go crazy…"
Liam said that because of the overwhelming happiness that felt like it would never end.
DING!
(Your Trading Cheat has gained a new feature; you can now see the highest price of newly released meme coins within the same day!)
A sudden notification from the System left Liam even more stunned.
New meme coins.
This was not something to be underestimated. In a single day, there could be thousands of new meme coins, where 99% of them were scams.
However, every day, there were always a few meme coins that surged by 1000% after being listed on a DEX. If they gained enough traction, their prices could even rise by more than 10,000%.
There was only one drawback—you couldn't use too much capital.
However, if it rose by 10,000%, then 1000 dollars would become 100,000—or at least around 80,000 after accounting for slippage if everything was sold at once.