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exit liquidity
What does exit liquidity mean?
The unlucky late buyers who provide the cash for insiders, VCs or whales to cash out. If you're buying a token at the top while the team is selling, congratulations — you ARE the exit liquidity. The phrase is half technical (it's a real market-microstructure term) and half savage burn aimed at copers buying obvious tops.
"Influencer shilling a meme coin to his 200k followers? Those followers are the exit liquidity."
Origin
Borrowed from traditional finance where it describes the buyers an investor needs to unload a position. Weaponised in crypto Twitter post-2021 to mock retail buyers of insider-dumped tokens.
Frequently asked questions
What does exit liquidity mean?
Exit liquidity refers to latecomer buyers whose purchases give earlier holders the demand they need to sell out at a profit.
What does it mean to be someone's exit liquidity?
It means you bought in late and provided the buying pressure that let insiders or whales dump on you, often leaving you holding losses.
How do you avoid being exit liquidity?
Traders try to avoid it by not chasing coins that have already pumped hard on hype, since that's often when early holders are cashing out.
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