# What are tokenslices?

### Tokenslices are the heart of Slicer

They're **simple to understand and create**, but can be used to build extremely powerful and sophisticated strategies.

Here's a story that'll be familiar to anyone who's traded crypto:

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Token $XYZ has 10x'd in the past two weeks and kicked off a frenzy among retail traders. It's all anyone's talking about. Social channels are saturated with people sharing screenshots of their gains, traders are arguing whether it's about to crash or if its run is just getting started, and pretty much everyone wishes they'd heard about it earlier. Should you buy in now? This story plays out nearly every week in crypto, leaving most participants either sidelined or piling in too late and becoming exit liquidity.

#### Now rewind two weeks.

**Were there any signs something interesting was going on with $XYZ, if only you had the right tools to spot them?** Say on day one its price was up 10%—but so was the price of 500 other tokens, most of which would retrace soon after. But what if you could take those 500 tokens and pick out the few where something interesting is happening? Imagine you had a list of tokens meeting these criteria:

* **down 50%** from all-time high
* **price had bottomed** and was starting to rebound (up 10% in last day, \~flat over last month)
* **new buyers** starting to pile in faster and faster (more than 500 new buyers in the last week, 200 of which were in the last day and 100 of which were in the last hour—and 50 of which were in the last 15 minutes)
* many of these new buyers are **adding liquidity** to pools, signaling they probably don't intend to dump
* most new buyers are **small retail** (average buy size < $500), but a couple big whales have also started stacking
* the **first whispers** about the token appearing on social media after a long drought where nobody mentioned it—but still totally under the radar outside of a few niche Telegram groups

If you saw a list of, say, the three tokens that matched these criteria two weeks ago, would you have bought them and caught $XYZ?

If you had a list like this that was **always updated in real time**, and that you could **modify, test, and act on continuously**, building more **sophisticated strategies** on top, would it be a game-changer? Would it totally reshape the way you trade?

If you had a list like this that was updated in real time, that you could modify, [test](https://gitbook.slicer.xyz/track-a-slices-performance), and act on continuously, building more sophisticated strategies on top—would it be a game-changer? Would it totally reshape the way you trade?
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These lists are tokenslices. They identify tokens with properties that set them apart from other tokens, providing alpha long before the rest of the market can detect it. They address the **fundamental problem** all crypto traders face: Out of the thousands of tokens in existence, which ones provide unique opportunities? Which ones should you pay attention to this month, this week, this hour? And which ones should you buy (or sell), and when?

That's what **tokenslices** solve.


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