When is the smartest time to follow the lead?

The answer has never been waiting for the big players to call the shots, but rather hitting three key points:
When Bitcoin hits a new all-time high, when market liquidity is at its fullest, and before retail investors collectively FOMO.
When liquidity is abundant, the movement of MEME tokens is not determined by any single leader; the true driver is market momentum.
Looking back at December 2025 and October 2025, no hundredfold or dozens of times MEME tokens were driven up solely because a leader entered the market.
It is precisely during periods of ample liquidity that mass hero-making is easiest.
Those well-known leaders, none of them rose to fame except during massive liquidity influxes.
When established leaders enter a MEME token, it’s mainly just icing on the cake; it won’t make you rich overnight.
To earn excess returns in MEME tokens, the core factor is always liquidity, not the leader.
At this stage, with market liquidity sluggish, retail investors who want to survive and make money have only one way: buy earlier than the leaders, at lower costs, and sell faster.
If you can’t do these three things, you’re very likely to become liquidity that just absorbs the leaders’ positions.