# Market Lab — The Inhabitant of the Laboratory

*Emily discovers a mysterious hamster in the lab. Bitcoin overheated, RATS explodes +92.49%. Trading system works flawlessly—until a strange message appears.*

By [Hampfree | Market Lab](https://paragraph.com/@hampfree) · 2025-12-23

#marketlab, #trading, #crypto, #bitcoin, #futures, #cryptotrading, #technicalanalysis, #mysterystory

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An entire week of intensive experiments. Day after day, Emily developed new trading approaches, testing them on volatile assets. Evening of December 19th — a live hamster with a tag reading **NEWBEE** is found in a cabinet. How did it get there? How did it survive? Unknown.

She takes it out, gives it water, places the cage next to the monitor.

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**Market Overview (December 23, 2025)**
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**Bitcoin: $90K, but overheated**

Open interest in futures contracts surged from 304,000 to 310,000 BTC. Funding rate jumped from 0.04% to 0.09%. At a local peak, this is a classic signal of overheating and an approaching correction.

**CryptoQuant: Bearish Phase**

Transactions fell from 460,000 to 438,000. Active addresses dropped from 43,300 to 41,500. Speculators are exiting the market.

**The Paradox: Traditional Finance in Euphoria**

While Bitcoin struggles, traditional markets are in extreme euphoria. Dow Jones, gold, and silver are at all-time highs. Bitcoin trades 30% below its peak ($126K). This represents long-term capital reallocation from crypto to equities.

**Coinbase + Prediction Markets**

Coinbase acquired The Clearing Company to develop prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi). In reality, platforms profit from volatility and excitement, not long-term growth.

For traders: **volatility remains, but there's no clear trend**. Ideal conditions for intraday trading.

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**RATS: Meme Ecosystem on Ethereum**
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RATS (Ratscoin) is an ERC-20 token built on Ethereum with a functional ecosystem:

*   **Deflationary model** — tokens become scarcer over time
    
*   **PoS staking** — holders earn rewards
    
*   **Community governance** — token holders vote on protocol updates
    
*   **Reflection mechanism** — percentage from each transaction redistributed to holders
    

**Metrics RATS (December 23, $0.00004097):**

*   24h change: +1.54%
    
*   Market Cap: $41.49M
    
*   Volume 24h: $10.71M (+21.01%)
    
*   **Vol/Mkt Cap: 25.64%** — 5x above normal
    

Vol/Mkt Cap of 25.64% indicates extremely intense trading. The crowd operates in panic and excitement. For experienced traders: volatile, but physically predictable. If you catch impulses with the right system, it delivers profits.

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Lab report, Bybit, RATS

🧪 **LAB REPORT #9**
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*   **Asset:** RATS/USDT ([Bybit](https://www.bybit.com/invite?ref=PWMD24))
    
*   **Signal:** Bounce from lower band of Keltner Channel on strong downward impulse
    
*   **Entry:** Supertrend switched from red to green
    
*   **Exit:** Williams %R crossed -20 level
    
*   **Result: +92.49%**
    

**Trade History:**

December 19 — sharp RATS selloff. Price dropped hard, hitting the lower Keltner Channel band (oversold signal). Supertrend switched from red to green, indicating trend reversal and bulls entering. Emily opened a long position. Williams %R crossed -20 (bulls exhausted) — exit signal.

**Why It Worked:**

Nothing supernatural. Simple impulse on a volatile asset:

1.  Price fell sharply (panic, liquidations)
    
2.  Technical levels worked perfectly (Keltner showed the zone, Supertrend confirmed)
    
3.  Exit was precise (WPR caught the exhaustion moment)
    

**Key observation:** The system worked again. Keltner Channel continues to show exact entry zones. Supertrend didn't give false signals.

On small caps where Vol/Mkt Cap jumps between 20-30%, these approaches work more reliably than on large caps like BTC and ETH. The crowd panics and liquidates itself. We simply read the chart math and take our slice.

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💭 **Emily's Reflections**

Evening. NEWBEE sleeps in the cage next to the monitor. Emily closed the terminal and reclined in her chair.

Seven days of intensive experiments. Each day — new position, new asset, new story. Not all trades were perfect, but the system held. Indicators worked. Discipline saved her from errors.

She remembered the voice from the radio. ["Check neighboring timeframes. There's noise there,"](https://paragraph.com/@hampfree/echoes-of-mt-gox-skl-experiment) the unknown voice said. That advice was invaluable — it saved her from losses on SUI.

But here's what she knew for certain:

> **Market in transition. Bears advancing, bulls retreating. Leverage rising. Liquidation risk at maximum. Capital bleeding on alts.**
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> **But between these losses appear windows — impulses, recoveries, volatility spikes. These windows are open for those who know where to look.**

She looked at sleeping NEWBEE.

_— You know what's funny? — Emily said aloud. — All these crashes on RATS, all this chaos in alts... And here lives a real furry miracle. Small. Alive. With black button eyes. And it survived. Because it found shelter in the safest place — among wires and junk._

The hamster stirred in its sleep, whiskers twitching.

Emily smiled and wrote the final note in her lab journal:

_"RATS worked perfectly. Keltner Channel never misses. Supertrend only goes quiet when there's no trend — otherwise it's spot on. The market is slowly cooling, but for scalping it's even better than a trend. A scalper loves volatility, not direction._

_NEWBEE sleeps beside me. Survived in the cabinet thanks to instinct. We survive in the market thanks to system. Difference is only in the tools."_

On the desk, among stickers and notes, lay a new sheet of paper. One word written in firm, straight handwriting:

**_"KAY"_**

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⚠ **IMPORTANT:** This material is for informational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Trading involves high risk. Loss of capital is possible.

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