How Odds Are Calculated

Odds Formula

Odds Ratio = Peak Price ÷ First Purchase Price

Components

First Purchase Price

The exact price when a smart money address first bought the token, captured from on-chain transactions.

Peak Price

The highest price the token achieved since launch, aggregated across multiple DEX sources. We consider only price action after the candle when the smart address first bought.

Special Cases: Malicious and Short‑Lived Tokens

Malicious Tokens (Odds = -1)

Assets flagged by on-chain and off-chain heuristics as risky (e.g., honeypot/un-sellable or blacklist controls, extreme or mutable taxes, removable liquidity, mint authority not renounced, trading disabled, aggressive liquidity control). These do not represent genuine upside opportunities, so their odds are fixed at -1 to indicate a high‑risk classification and are separated from normal samples in analysis.

Short‑Lived Tokens (Odds = -0.5)

Tokens that lose liquidity or die shortly after launch (e.g., only a handful of candles, volume collapses quickly, delisted/abandoned shortly). Because they rarely form a meaningful peak, we assign a uniform odds marker of -0.5 to distinguish them from ordinary losses.

Note: Negative odds here are classification markers for risk/short‑lived behavior and do not represent literal ROI multiples.

Examples

High Performance: First buy $0.001, Peak $1.00 = 1,000x odds

Moderate Performance: First buy $0.50, Peak $5.00 = 10x odds

Loss: First buy $2.00, Peak $1.50 = 0.75x odds

Data Filters

To ensure data quality, we exclude:

High-frequency bot addresses — Filtered out using trading pattern analysis
Price spikes under 1 minute — Skipped to avoid manipulation artifacts
Wash trading — Circular transactions between related addresses
Flash loans — Leveraged positions that don't represent genuine investment
Micro transactions — Below minimum threshold for meaningful analysis

Success Metrics

Peak >2x Rate

Percentage of tokens that achieved at least 2x their purchase price:

(Tokens with >2x peak ÷ Total tokens) × 100

Average Odds

Mean odds ratio across all token purchases by an address:

Sum of all odds ÷ Number of purchases