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Pow
Pow
Image: X profile avatar of @traderpow
handle@traderpow
roletrader
known forlarge following conviction posting, volatility trading, Padre affiliation

Pow is a pseudonymous Solana memecoin trader and caller whose position posts reach one of the larger follower counts among trench traders on X.

Contents
  1. 1 Trading career
  2. 2 2026 pivot
  3. 3 Public presence
  4. 4 Controversies
  5. 5 References

Pow is a pseudonymous cryptocurrency trader active in the Solana memecoin market, posting on X as @traderpow. With an audience of 209,643 followers as of August 19, 2026, he sits at the larger end of the accounts tracked in trench trading datasets, and his entries and exits are widely watched by copy trading followers in the trenches.

Trading career

Pow's public style is built around volatility. The January 2026 KOL intelligence dataset compiled from kolscan and web research characterizes him as a confident, high risk trader who embraces market swings and frames drawdowns as part of the process. His own X biography strikes a similar note, now condensed to the creed "Many times I lose, few times I win but I make them count (don't tail)", with "don't tail" as the standing disclaimer; he restated the creed in manifesto posts in February and May 2026, humble enough to know he can lose it all, confident enough to know he can get it back. This framing, unusual among callers who emphasize only wins, is part of his reputation among followers.

His three most famous trades are all on chain and all extremes. In the launch week of $TRUMP in January 2025, Lookonchain data reported by Watcher Guru showed traderpow buying 1.03 million TRUMP at 1.79 dollars and selling at 23.84 dollars for a 22.7 million dollar profit. He then spent 16.7 million dollars re buying 309,514 TRUMP at 53.93 dollars near the top and sat on an 8.48 million dollar paper loss within hours as the token fell about 51 percent, one of the most cited top signal trades of the TRUMP launch. In May 2025 came the famous hold: per Lookonchain via The Daily Hodl, he spent 1,466 SOL, about 367,000 dollars, on 17.66 million LAUNCHCOIN, watched it crash about 99 percent, kept holding, and the bag came back to about 2.7 million dollars when LAUNCHCOIN crossed a 150 million dollar market cap; flash coverage records him selling 14 million LAUNCHCOIN for 16,071 SOL, about 2.76 million dollars, the next day while keeping about 3 million tokens.

He has been affiliated with the trading terminal Padre and published a referral link to it from his profile, a common monetization route for high volume trench traders; by August 2026 the Padre referral was no longer in his bio, which instead lists his community account @powsdegencamp along with @TroupeFTM and @solBOOGLE.

2026 pivot

In mid 2026 Pow's feed is dominated by $NET (NetNet Capital), a rebasing treasury token on robinhood chain pitched as an improved OlympusDAO fork. His repeated slogan is "Net is the Net of this Cycle", and he marks posts with the double goal emoji the NET community uses, including a standalone "(🥅,🥅) while traveling? Stacking NET". He amplifies the ecosystem around his picks rather than only calling them, retweeting live show episode recaps on $NET, NetNetCap treasury updates, and francophone NET threads, functioning as a distribution hub for the token's media. Beyond NET he has pushed $CETS on BSC in his own words, "It's an amazing feeling to win on your own, but have you ever thought about winning collectively as a group? ... HODL CETS, earn GOLD passively straight to your wallet", and retweeted the Pons project's one month recap. August 2026 reply discourse around him splits between renewed praise from NET holders, one writing "you have gained my respect back pow", and the recurring accusation from smaller accounts that the veteran KOL cohort he belongs to is washed and has not brought the trenches a winner in a year.

Public presence

Pow's account dates to November 2020, making him an older presence than most of the pump.fun era cohort. He is a recurring reference point among other traders and personalities; Frank DeGods posted in January 2025 that he had met traderpow and joked that he was "never gonna fail," an indication of Pow's standing in the trader social scene. Fan made tokens referencing him, including a pump.fun coin called "AI by trader POW" (POWAI), have appeared on Solana, though these are tribute assets rather than official products.

The KOL dataset lists him with meme lord and alpha caller tags alongside his trader role, noting a meme heavy vocabulary drawn from degen trading culture. Like most trench callers he is best understood as a hybrid of trader and content personality, with the follower count amplifying the market impact of his posts.

Controversies

Pow has drawn direct criticism over his 2026 hit rate. @MidCurveMortal (14,228 followers) wrote on May 1, 2026: "POW is washed as fuck. His hit rate went from something like 1/3 in early 2024 and 2025 to 1/20 now. Now he buys bundled dog shit then writes down 6 paragraphs of word slop right after to distract you from the fact that you just got rugged." A thinner but recurring accusation pattern comes from very small accounts: @solanaaGirl (65 followers) posted between April and June 2026 that he "CALLED 100 TOKENS SINCE 1 MONTH AND 99 IS RUGGED," a claim echoed around the same period by @PinkUnicorn80_. Neither account is corroborated by other sources, and the pattern reads as a single low credibility voice repeating itself rather than a substantiated accusation.

References

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Last updated 2026-08-19