Conclusion
The case studied in this research is just an single case study of a particular target address. It perfectly confirmed our hypothesis that making money by copying the actions of other investors is possible. But, just as an experienced investor studies each asset before adding it to their portfolio, so a smart copy-investor must study their target to understand what they are doing and for what purpose. Even such a seems simple at first glance method of earning money actually requires painstaking research work. Ideally, you should find one or several target addresses and scrupulously study their actions, understand their way of thinking, and study their strategy. And only then should you proceed with transactions.

You don't need to react to every asset movement signal. For example "10,000 bitcoins have moved to the address of exchange X". And everyone started selling bitcoin, as cryptocurrency amateurs interpret the news unequivocally - bitcoin will fall in value. After all, that's what it was moved to the exchange for, right? It should be understood that not everything is so unambiguous, the above conclusion is only one of the possible scenarios. And there are many others.

For example, rebalancing between exchange wallets, etc. That is, selling these tokens on the market is just one of many options, but this "news" fulfills its role as if no other options exist. Another case, what prevents a whale from selling off an asset without attracting attention? For this purpose, it is enough to split the balance into ten (or a hundred) addresses. Nobody canceled OTC (over-the-counter) transactions either.

Errors and how to avoid them
It is important to realize that simply copying the trades of a target address will not necessarily make a profit. The person who copies doesn't know the strategy of the investor they are following. Information about her trades (assets, direction and volume of the trade) is only data for further careful analysis, not an instruction for action. You also need to keep in mind that any investor is also a human being who has emotions. He or she can both win the market and lose to it. Any investor can act illogically and irrationally.
It can be assumed that large investors, knowing that their actions are being tracked, can manipulate the market by creating false signals. Therefore, tracking small targets like the one we investigated can cut off such a disadvantage.

Here's another interesting fact to ponder. The wallet owner finished selling tokens on January 28, in fact at the very beginning of the price increase. This can be explained in many ways, but perhaps it indicates that this investor is being cautious. So he's worthy of studying his activities more thoroughly for now.

So, our strategy is successfully confirmed. Addresses that buy up shitcoins before the pump and successfully sell them during the price rise do exist. You could argue that in February 2023, there was localized growth in the entire crypto market and the FLOKI has risen with the rest of the cryptocurrency. Yeah, it's possible.

But speculating with shitcoin is riskier than investing in a token with strong fundamentals. And our task was to find people who "know something". Which we have done very well in this study.

And it all becomes clear. On December 8, 2022 and January 3, 2023, the address has bought a total of 141.896 million FLOKI tokens. And has sold out all the tokens between January 22 and January 28. The total purchase amount is $1157.78 and gas costs. The amount raised after the token sale is $2025.26 minus gas costs. Thus, in 51 days, the target realized a profit of $867.48 or 74.93% excluding fees.

3. Let's explore the target in more detail, and for that we'll use the Arkham platform. The address balance is in the $43k-$331k range, and that's good. The average investor may not have enough money to copy the strategy of an investor who has millions of dollars. There are a lot of different shitcoins in the target's wallet, which may indicate that the owner specializes in these kinds of tokens. This is a hypothesis, since we don't know this person (or organization) and all our assumptions are probabilistic. Let's take a look at the history of the target's interaction with the FLOKI token in the BNB Chain.

Now let's find the addresses that were buying up large amounts of token in early January. The FLOKI token exists on two networks, Ethereum and BNB Chain. Let's look for the target address in BNB. Why there? It doesn't matter, it's just that BNB Chain has much cheaper transaction fees. And it's favorable for the not-so-large investors. Let's assume that their strategy is to maximize profits with a small investment, and this strategy suits us. So, we were able to find this transaction. On Jan. 3, the target address bought 113.58 million FLOKI on Pancakeswap.

1. There is memcoin ranking on Coinmarketcap. We need to study their price charts and figure out which one had a sharp increase in price. As a result of the search, a contender has been found, and it is FLOKI. In early January 2023, the token price was around $0.000007 and reached $0.000068 on February 16.

Real case
Now we need to check all the information in practice. Let's use strategy #2 and look for a memcoin that has been pumped. Why are we going to work with memcoin? Because these tokens are trash and have no utility, they are only pumped up by hype. And since that is the case, we are interested in people who know how to profit from it.

3. Often a token's price grows well after listing on a major exchange like Binance, Coinbase, Bybit, etc. In this case the strategy is obvious, we need to find a token that has been listed on an exchange and we find the addresses that bought it up before listing it. It is logical to assume that some exchange staff may know about the listing and try to make a profit. Tracking them would be a good way to get insides.