lemon-strategy
🍋 LEMON v2.0.0 — Degen Fader
v2.0.0 (2026-05-12) — plumbing-only migration
NO thesis change. v1.3 fade scoring, MACRO_TREND_GATE, XYZ unban, leverage tiers (5x/7x/10x), MARGIN_PCT 30%, MIN_SCORE 9 all preserved verbatim. Migration: mcporter → SenpiClient, scanner-side create_position → producer push_signal() with LLM-gated runtime action, Python state files for daily cap → runtime.yaml risk.guard_rails, MARKET exits → FEE_OPTIMIZED_LIMIT.
The crowd is wrong. Lemon trades against the worst traders on the Hyperfeed when their consensus is fading.
Thesis
Hyperliquid attracts a lot of low-quality, high-leverage retail traders ("degens"). The Senpi MCP discovery_get_top_traders tool classifies traders by Trading Consistency Score (TCS) — the bottom buckets are CHOPPY and DEGEN. These traders consistently lose money over time. Counter-trading their consensus when their momentum is fading is a positive-edge strategy.
Lemon scans 12 liquid crypto majors every 5 minutes for setups where:
- Smart money is concentrated on one direction (≥3% pct of top traders gain, ≥20 traders)
- The 15m velocity is fading (the move is exhausting —
contribution_pct_change_15m ≤ 0.1, ideally negative) - The 4H price is overextended in the SM direction (mean-reversion setup)
- The 1H price is starting to reverse toward the fade direction